Facebook launches app for Groups

Facebook unveiled a new app that focuses on the social network's popular Groups.

Groups -- which is used by more than 700 million #Facebook users -- follows in the footsteps of Messenger with its own #standalone experience, the company revealed Tuesday. It's available for Android and iOS devices starting today.

When users open the app, they'll see the list of #Groups, with the ones users visit most frequently at the top. Users can also create new Groups from within the app, discover groups and set separate notifications.

What's different about Groups is, unlike #Messenger, it will still be accessible on the primary Facebook app.

"We saw that all of the messaging apps that people were using and they relied on the most were these dedicated and focused experiences," said Zuckerberg.