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Since launching 17 months ago on Android devices in October 2013, BlackBerry Ltd.’s BBM messaging service has been downloaded 100 million times on the Google Play Store, according to a release from the Waterloo-based company today.

The messaging platform is also available on iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry smartphones. BlackBerry claims that 100 million is, “just a fraction of the total,” number of BBM users across all the operating systems the messaging platform is available on, although the company did not provide numbers related to iOS and Windows Phone BBM users.

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“BBM for Android has officially achieved a milestone on the Google Play Store: 100 million installs. That puts BBM in the top tier of messaging apps on Google Play, and we got there in a little over a year as we first posted BBM for Android in late October 2013. We have 3.7 million reviews, and just shy of 2.4 million of them are five stars,” said BlackBerry in a statement.