The Facebook email service: Features of Project Titan gives Gmail and Yahoo a run for their money

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The celebrated social networking site Facebook plans to launch its email service shortly. The web based email service of Facebook is expected to launch on Monday, at San Francisco. The users of this email service will have addresses @facebook.com. This secret email project of Facebook is named as ‘Project Titan’ which is already nick-named as the ‘Gmail killer’.

As per an online tracking service, Google’s Gmail has 193.3 million users and Yahoo mail has 273.1 million users. Hotmail service from Microsoft is leading with 361.7 million users. The networking site, Facebook has nearly 500 million users around the globe. So it is hyped that Facebook’s email service will be a challenge to other leading service providers.

According to Tech Crunch, a tech blog in Silicon Valley, this Email service is being launched as an update to the existing message service in Facebook. The users of Facebook report that the messaging service in Facebook does not allow attachments to be sent. It is also a problem that the users cannot communicate to non-Facebook users via email using the messaging system in place right now.

As a response from Facebook, the users can now expect a fully fledged web-mail service from Facebook the in future. As per Tech Crunch Facebook’s email service will be unique in exploring all the possibilities of a web mail service and it will be the first email service which displays only those mails which are of interest to the user.


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