Today’s messaging has loads and loads of features, we wouldn’t even dream about for even twenty years ago. The most used IM’s today like AIM, ICQ or MSN(of course there are many more) do have hundreds of advanced features like Live Webcam Broadcasting, RSS-feeds or even Voice-to-Voice communication. The messengers today almost all look the same, the big difference, that makes the users choose their favorite IM, is almost always the community that comes with each messenger.
The following list is the list of IM’s, and it’s user count:
- AIM 53 Million
- Ebuddy 35 Million
- MSN/WLM 27 Million
- Yahoo! M 22 Million
- QQ 20 Million
- Sametime 15 Million
- Skype 8 Million
- Xfire 6.1 Million
- ICQ 4 Million
These IM’s all have an immense amount if users connected to it’s servers, so its important to choose the right one, in order to get in contact with the people you are interested in.