5 Million People Downloaded BBM for iOS, Android in Just 8 Hours

It seemed like a bad joke when BlackBerry announced that it would be launching BBM on iOS and Android. It didn’t seem like very many people would be interested in using such a dated messaging service, but that was wrong. Very wrong.

According to the official BBM Twitter account (via 9to5Mac), more than 5 million people have downloaded BBM for iOS and Android in just eight hours after its release. If that wasn’t crazy enough, BBM is now the No. 1 free app in the App Store.

Next 5 million in line - your turn! Open up BBM and click "I got the email" to get started on #BBM right away!

— BBM (@BBM) October 22, 2013 Read more...