Am I able to get iMessage on Mac OS X Lion?

Hi
umm i heard that there was the "messages" app on Mountain Lion and was wondering how to get it on OSX Lion. So I was searching the internet and found that you could get the beta version but clicked on the link and got redirected to the Apple Mac website. I was pretty dissapointed that i couldnt but i thought you could sort of... combine iChat and iMessage together if I could but nope...
please tell me.
rbarrington-smith
Macbook 13'' Intel Core 2 Duo
OS X Lion
Macintosh HD 250GB

Hello,
No - you cannot download it from Apple anyore because the beta has finished.
You can still install it if you find the Message Beta installer somewhere online but after a quick search, I couldn't find anything.
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