Facebook Now Supports Jabber/XMPP

supersloshy writes: Facebook Chat has so far only been meant to be used in a web browser, and instant messaging applications have had a hard time implementing it's undocumented protocol. Today, Facebook is making this job much easier by enabling support for XMPP to access it's chat service. Serkan Piantino from Facebook says, "Every day people send more than two billion chat messages to each other on Facebook. Today we're making it easier for people to extend those conversations with their Facebook friends to instant messaging clients beyond Facebook.com." Instructions on how to set it up in your favorite instant messenger, such as Pidgin or Adium, can be found here. AOL's AIM and the Empathy Instant Messenger are also including pre-set Facebook options, due to already supporting XMPP.