You can now sign up for Messenger with your phone number, no Facebook account needed

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By Christian ZibregJun 24, 2015, 3:11 pm734 pts
You no longer need a Facebook account in order to exchange instant messages with your friends through the Facebook Messenger service. By dropping the Facebook account requirement, the social network hopes to bring in even more people under the Messenger fold. By last count, Messenger had 700 million active…

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