Google Talk and Meebo growing their user base

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Google Talk and Meebo growing their user base

by Chris Gilmer Jul 30th 2007

What IM do you use? Google Talk and Meebo have been growing with leaps and bounds, and so has IMVU.

Meebo, the online instant messaging system has experienced growth rates of 354% in the past ten months, and Google Talk, both web based and desktop based, has grown 149%. IMVU is another Instant messaging application that you might use if you are a Second Life of Habbo fan. It lets users create a custom virtual characters complete with clothes and 3D scenes. They have experienced a 154% since last year.

A shocking result came from Skype. The eBay owned company saw only a 20% increase in users since last August.

[via VentureBeat]

UPDATE: Check out CenterNetworks who link to a Nielson study reporting that Meebo is the fastest growing IM destination.

Tags: google talk, GoogleTalk, IM, imvu, instant messaging, InstantMessaging, meebo, web2, web2.0

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Julian Bond said 1:50PM on 7-30-2007

How about you try and find some real figures to compare market share for all the IM+Voice+Video programs. How about downloads, accounts and average online at any one time. It would be nice to know if Skype has caught and/or passed MSN, AIM, YM! on any of those measures.

And note that the game now is IM+Voice+Video. I don't see a whole lot of voice or video integration in things like Pidgin and Trillian.

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