Facebook Reveals “Project Titan” – A New Modern Messaging System

During this mornings press event in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Project Titan is not “e-mail” as speculated, but an entirely new “modern messaging system”.

Although each Facebook user will be given an @facebook.com e-mail address, the primary focus of the new messaging system is to allow users to communicate in real-time, via IM, SMS, or Facebook, wherever they are.

According to Zuckerberg, 350 million users send an astounding average of 4 billion messages through Facebook daily. Taking this into consideration, along with statements from teenage users that e-mail is too slow, Facebook developers sat down to design a seemless, cross-platform and spam-free messaging system.

Currently in Beta, the system will be rolled out to users over the next few months via an invite-only process.

To view the full press event recording, be sure to visit and click on the Facebook New Messages Announcement video.

As soon as we have access to the new system, we will have screenshots and tutorials made available!