Usage share of instant messaging clients

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The following table gives the Usage share of instant messaging clients.

 Note: that many of the numbers listed in this section are not directly comparable, and some are speculative. Some instant messaging systems are distributed among many different instances and thus difficult to measure in total (e.g. XMPP). While some numbers are given by the owners of a complete instant messaging system, others are provided by commercial vendors of a part of a distributed system. Some companies may be motivated to inflate their numbers in order to increase advertisement earnings or to attract partners, clients, or customers. Importantly, some numbers are reported as the number of "active" users (without a shared standard of that activity), others indicate total user accounts, while others indicate only the users logged in during an instance of peak usage.
Instant messenger client Company Usage Notes
AIM AOL, Inc 53 million active users, "over 100 million" total[1]
XMPP XMPP Standards Foundation 1200+ million This number is based on the number of Facebook accounts[2], Google talk and WLM accounts[3]. Further, as there are many other open source servers (some also with companies behind it), the number provided is probably too small. However, many of these servers are not federated, and so, do not actually interact as is usually expected of XMPP servers.
eBuddy eBuddy 35 million users (including 4 million mobile)[4]
MSN Microsoft Corporation 330 million active every month (jun 2009)[5]>
Yahoo! Messenger Yahoo!, Inc. 22 million users[citation needed]
QQ Tencent Holdings Limited 61.3 million peak online users, 448 million "active"[6]
IBM Lotus Sametime IBM Corp. 15 million (enterprise) users[citation needed]
Skype Skype Limited 34 million peak online (February 2012)[7], 560 million total (April 2010)[8]
MXit MXit Lifestyle (Pty) Ltd. 14 million users (majority in Southern Africa, more than 1.3 million international)[9] MXit federates with the Google Talk network.
Xfire Xfire, Inc. 6.1 million users (January 2007)[citation needed]
Gadu-Gadu GG Network S.A. 5.6 million users[10]
ICQ ICQ LLC. 4 million active[1]
Paltalk Paltalk.com 3.3 million unique visitors per month[11]
PSYC PSYC 1 million users, daily (majority in Brazil)[12] Total amount of users cannot be estimated due to the decentralized nature of the protocol.
Meebo Meebo, Inc. 1 million users[13]
IMVU IMVU, inc. 1 million users[14]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Data as of September 2006
  2. ^ http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=409753352130
  3. ^ http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/12/14/anyone-can-build-a-windows-live-messenger-client-with-open-standards-access-via-xmpp.aspx
  4. ^ Data for October 2006
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ TENCENT ANNOUNCES 2009 SECOND QUARTER AND INTERIM RESULTS
  7. ^ 34 Million People Concurrently Online on Skype
  8. ^ Skype Flaunts 560 Million Users Figure
  9. ^ Data as of 14 July, 2009
  10. ^ Data for June 2006
  11. ^ Data for August 2006
  12. ^ http://about.psyc.eu/Index#How_many_people_use_this_stuff.3F February 2007
  13. ^ Data for October 2006
  14. ^ Data for June 2007

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