“VKontakte” plans to launch a separate app for messaging between users of social networks in the summer of 2016. It is reported by RSN referring to the operational Director of “Vkontakte” Andrew Mace.
“We test. I hope the summer months start,” said Rogozov. While the official app-messenger for Vkontakte not. According to the representative of the social network, the service will be available for both computers and mobile applications.
Rogozov noted that currently the desktop version of the app is being tested among employees “Vkontakte”. Messenger will be available as a mobile app, and as a client for the PC, but will not receive the encryption end-to-end (previously such a system was implemented WhatsApp).
Last year, the sources reported that “Vkontakte” working on new encryption protocols correspondence and may produce your own messenger when work on the protocols will be completed.
Rogozov noted that the company is interested to keep the integration between Vkontakte and a private messenger. Service users will be able to quickly switch to a profile, news and etc.
The audience of “Vkontakte” is 90 million users a month. About 77% of mobile audience, 25% go to the social network exclusively through mobile devices. Currently mobile audience Vkontakte is 71 million users.
