Facebook's Instant Articles will now be available on its Messenger application, the company said on its blog. This will be available to Android devices first and on iOS in the coming weeks. As the update is rolled out, users will see a lightning bolt on the top right corner of some links shared in Messenger which indicates it is an Instant Article. For publishers who have enabled Instant Articles, Facebook will render the Instant Articles version of the article whenever its URL is shared in Messenger. At the moment, links which are shared on Messenger load on a mobile browser which can be a slower experience, Facebook added. Instant Articles is a service wherein publishers allow Facebook to publish their entire content on the platform, and is loaded within the app itself. This gives Facebook control of the environment in which it is read, and optimise it for faster consumption. Websites usually have badly optimized javascript with external plugins that slow them down, as a compromise for features being served to readers. In February, Facebook announced it would make the service available for all publishers, regardless of their size and location starting from April. It added that despite signing up a ‘few hundred’ publishers globally (about 300 at last count), the social networking giant had been working on tools for opening up Instant Articles, which was built to address slow loading times on mobile web. Google too has a similar product up version called Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) which speeds up load times…
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