Data-cheap Facebook Lite touches 100 million monthly active users globally

Facebook announced that Facebook Lite has crossed 100 million monthly activity users in under nine months since its launch.

To recall, Facebook Lite was launched for Android in June 2015, and is targeted at emerging markets to work smoothly with poor data connections (2G) and low-end phones.The download size of the app is under 1MB and once installed takes up to 2.82MB space on any device, compared to 195MB used by Facebook.

Facebook Lite now supports 56 languages and is most popular in India, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and Philippines. The app has been rolled out in more than 150 countries through Latin America, Asia, Africa and parts of Europe.

The app has also received new features including support for video playback,  multiple photo uploads, pinch-to-zoom for photos, and emojis, apart from reducing app load times by 25 percent.