Most Popular Instant Messengers 1997 – 2019
Most Popular Instant Messengers 1997 – 2019
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Most Popular Instant Messengers 1997 – 2019
Hoooly fuuuck blackberry messenger was a thing!
Qq never heard about it
QQ is mostly used in China I believe.
Is discord not considered instant messenger? It’s what I use the most nowadays.
ICQ was my first messenger. *Nostalgic teardrop*
When I first came to the US, I was pretty damn surprised that rarely anyone in my classes was using — or even knowing — WhatsApp. All groups were forcing these awkward groups chat apps with really bad UI and I was like, but there’s a globally agreed upon No.1 app for these kind of situations.
Get on with the rest of the world, America. Stop being the middle child.
I’m surprised AOL was as low as it was in the early-mid 2000s. Everyone I knew was using AIM.
Top 2 are the property of Facebook
I’m really surprised Line isn’t even ranking in the end. That doesn’t seem right. Lots of people use Line in Asia. I don’t think I met a single Taiwanese person who, when asked, didn’t have Line. It’s also big in Japan and Thailand, among other places. See figures here: [https://www.statista.com/statistics/327292/number-of-monthly-active-line-app-users/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/327292/number-of-monthly-active-line-app-users/)
It’s so depressing that basically everyone only uses either Facebook or the Chinese government to talk with each other.
Why isn’t snapchat in the list?
am I like the only person who mainly uses gchat/google hangouts? that’s been my go to since like 2010.
icq was the dogs bollocks back in the day was streets ahead off the competition how the mighty have fallen
if anyone cares 1 and 2 are FB, 3 and 4 are Tencent
Blackberry died in 2015? It feels way further back than that.
*BRB gonna be in my room for a while thinking about how I was just recently betrayed. IM me if you care and I may or may not respond*
*I kept everything inside*
*And even though I tried*
*It all fell apart*
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Man, MSN messenger was the shit back in the day. Thing had so many fucking features and the ui was slick, too. None of my American friends used it but people I knew from games did and it was great. Literally made AIM look like a pile of garbage in comparison. I remember it had a group chat Texas hold’em game that was pretty great, too. It’s too bad most Americans never really caught on to it for whatever reason.
Telegram should have more popularity. It’s the only messenger nowadays that truly respects your privacy. Also the integration of bots and other features make it incredibly useful.
As an exapmle what you can do there with a little knowledge of code. You can set up your own bot reminder. Or if your uni has it’s shedule put out on the web you can integrate it with your bot and set up some commands like where is professor “Noname” and it will tell you where he or she is or command that will run through the schedule and determine which classroom is not currently occupied so you can chill there on your own.
Telegram proved to be incredibly usefull over the years. It even has some chat games you can play with others like poker or happy farm.
I wrote this relatively huge advert for Telegram because I genuinely wish more people used it. It can get frustrating when people can’t overcome their habbits and rather stick with viber then try something indubitably better.
The music reminds me of the episode of The Office where they have to make a local TV ad.
Skype has been circling down the shitter since MicroSoft took over it and made the app worse and loaded it with ads.
I hope it rots in hell for the POS messenger that it really is.
What are the numbers exactly? Trillian wasn’t a messenger, but a client that could connect to multiple services. So, it doesn’t really belong on the same list as AIM and MSN and Yahoo.
Facebook had Instant Messaging long before Messenger was made
Aaah the good old ICQ! 😊
This seems to be missing Discord, who we know had at least 250 million users at the start of the year.
The fuck is QQ lmao
When I saw Telegram appear at the very end, I did a little fist pump.
Trillian! It’s been ages since I thought of them. Was pretty sweet back in day.
What caused MSN Messenger to explode in 2002?
Can anyone point me to a resource on how to animate graphs like this? I’m handy in Python and After Effects, if it matters. The scaling of the x-axis is what really throws me. I’ve tried searching about this several times before but never find anything useful.
aaand now i wanna play some Tropico….
Kind of surprised that QQ still has some dominance, when I lived in China it was slowly turning into their version of myspace. Anyone know why QQ wasn’t able to keep up with wechat?
My original ICQ number was 5 digits long
*smug*
man I miss MSN messenger…made some good friends on it.
I had no idea WHatsApp was that popular..hardly any of my friends use it.
Why did they kill MSN? I feel like it would have survived a lot longer than it did, if not still be around today. Imagine a Whatsapp like MSN on all your devices?
I hated Skype, but I used it for the superior features. I still used MSN until the day it died and still wish I could log back in to my old MSN and see all my friends and their statuses ect.
Does Slack not count?
I’m honestly just going back to IRC and trying to get my friend to go with me. I’m sick of these shitty companies.
Google has entered the chat
Google has left the chat
I can pick out the year I got old by watching this. At first it’s like, yah I had all those (except qq) then all these new fangled apps started showing up.
I’m surprised – how is google hangouts not popular enough to be shown in the graphic at the end while iMessage sits at 5th place despite both being the default messaging apps on their devices?
Oh Yahoo! I loved that.
RIP AOL IM….:-(
the best messenger.
I miss AIM. sigh..
ah the days of ICQ.
Wechat has peaked already, right? Chinese population is at 1.3 billion.
I’m never heard most of this
As an adolescent during the late 90’s-early 2000’s I frequently used ICQ and AIM, but never heard of QQ.
Edit: Turns out it’s a Chinese platform. Makes sense now.
I don’t ever recall SPECIFICALLY signing up for facebook messenger (I use it though). They just forced every facebook user to have it right? Thats no fair
I have none of the top 2019 messaging apps. Sms all the way. I also don’t have many friends…
Seems kinda weird, I never would have thought stuff like ICQ was still growing their active users well into the 2000’s.
Seemed to me like instant messaging in general just took a huge nosedive with social media coming along in a big way. I remember ICQ and MSN being the big ones here but people seemed to move away from instant messaging.
I always thought Trillian was more popular. It’s what I used for all my messengers for a long time.
Did anyone else use Odigo, no? Okay.
Is this service or client?
Because trillian was just a client, that integrated multiple services.
MSN 4ever!
I’m surprised iMessage didn’t surge up near the top right away. Not available in China/India I guess?
IRC is clearly superior
big rip to aim and msnm tbh. those were my shit.
y’all ever think discord will be on this list someday or nah?