BlackBerry’s BBM had 5 million downloads in 8 hours

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They may not be good at making phones, running a business, promoting apps, or staying in the smartphone market, but people seem to love their instant messaging service.

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BlackBerry’s BBM instant messenger service landed on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems on Monday and the company says the app has already been downloaded 5 million times.

The company announced the achievement in a Twitter post that alerted the “next 5 million” people that their turn to download the app was at hand.

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