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Add to SafariWhen comparing Messenger vs Twist, the Slant community recommends Twist for most people. In the question“What is the best team chat software?” Twist is ranked 23rd while Messenger is ranked 74th. The most important reason people chose Twist is:
Channels are neatly divided into topic threads, focusing the discussions.
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Pros
Pro Uses Facebook friends to create a contacts list
Allows communicating with anyone who's a friend on Facebook.
Pro Read receipts
Can see who has seen each message in group messages.
Pro Easy to share posts from Facebook
Integration with Facebook makes it easy to share any interesting posts from the Facebook timeline.
Pro Great UI
User interface of the application is clean, intuitive and easy to overview.
Pro Focused collaboration
Channels are neatly divided into topic threads, focusing the discussions.
Pro Guest roles
Guest members can be added that have access to specific channels; ideal for individuals outside the team.
Cons
Con Lack of privacy
Messenger is owned by Facebook. Based on their privacy policy, this means that any information you provide (including messages sent) are used by Facebook to profile you and sell access to your data to advertisers.
Con Lack of end-to-end encryption
Secret (end-to-end encrypted) chats are only supported in one-to-one messages, and are not enabled by default, and the encryption has not been verified independently.
Con Only 1 month of search for free
The free tier only searches the last 1 month.
