{"id":424,"date":"2006-07-14T10:53:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T18:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2006-07-14T10:53:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T18:53:31","slug":"im-usage-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/14\/im-usage-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"IM usage stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.25hoursaday.com\/weblog\/PermaLink.aspx?guid=19151414-1e2c-484c-aa1c-bf236c47f094\">Dare&#8217;s blog<\/a>)  What do you think the most widely used Instant Messaging platform is?  I would have guessed AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) since I remember it having been around back when IM was a new thing.  I&#8217;d be wrong though, very wrong according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalleysleuth.com\/2006\/07\/google_talk_fai.html\">recent stats<\/a>.  Even before Yahoo and MSN announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2006\/jul06\/07-12IMInteropPR.mspx\">interoperability between their messengers<\/a>, each of them was bigger than AOL &#8211; by a lot.<\/p>\n<p>In May &#8217;06, MSN was the leader with 204 million users.  Yahoo had 77 million.  AIM was down around 33 million&#8230; roughly tied with ICQ.  MSN has also been growing since last year, while the other two had been shrinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(found via Dare&#8217;s blog) What do you think the most widely used Instant Messaging platform is? I would have guessed AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) since I remember it having been around back when IM was a new thing. I&#8217;d be wrong though, very wrong according to the recent stats. Even before Yahoo and MSN announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-6Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}