April 23, 2008 9:45 AM PDT

Facebook Chat finally live to all users

Facebook announced Wednesday morning that its in-browser Facebook Chat feature is now live to all members, over two weeks after it first debuted to a limited number of users.

It was clear that Facebook was concerned with the stability of the chat application, first debuting it on a Sunday when many members--not to mention tech bloggers eager to report any flaw or bug--might not be at their computers.

The social network then rolled out Facebook Chat incrementally, with different "networks" on the site--geographic regions, colleges, companies--gaining access to it before others so that the new feature could stay under control. Some had the feature as early as April 6; a number of large networks couldn't access it until very recently.

Facebook now has nearly 70 million users.

Originally posted at The Social
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by SebDavies April 23, 2008 2:40 PM PDT
Works really well! :D
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by wwwjek April 23, 2008 5:42 PM PDT
^_^
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by zcollvee April 24, 2008 3:25 AM PDT
works ok. but none of my friends show u[p
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by tswolford April 24, 2008 4:36 PM PDT
It is a great application...not quite live messenger, but convienent!
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by danielkwood April 24, 2008 10:41 PM PDT
it works really well and does not intrude on facebook browsing but still appears on every page, so you can use it at the same time as viewing profiles etc...the only thing i don't like is that you have to appear online to see who's online. i'd rather appear offline and see which friends are online before appearing online. great app though, a good step for facebook. myspace is going down the drain with its cluttered look, too much advertising and multiple pages for certain actions whereas with facebook you can add comments etc and stay on the same page. i'm not sure what this is called but i call it interactive pages.
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