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Microsoft gifts @messenger to Facebook as it decides to shut down MSN Messenger

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After deciding to shut down its MSN Messenger service, also known as Windows Live Messenger, after 15 years, Microsoft is passing its twitter account to Facebook.

Microsoft said in a tweet that it is gifting the @messenger Twitter account to Facebook later this month for the social network's Messenger service, reported The Verge.

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First Published: Sep 11 2014 | 3:43 PM IST

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