Meebo, the handy tool used in thousands of workplaces, schools and libraries each day to get around IM filters, just announced that they’ve surpassed 500,000 created user accounts since their launch back in March. For those who don’t know, Meebo is an web-based AJAX tool which combines MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk.
Reaching 500,000 registered users isn’t the only eminent achievement for them, though. They released some other highly interesting statistics as well:
- Meebo is logged into 900,000 times each day, approximately 10 times every second.
- This equates to about 670,000 unique logins (you don’t have to register to login, so we can assume the registrants are dedicated Meebo users, since they chose to do so).
- The average user logs into 1.4 different networks at a time, that’s 1.3 million unique network IDs each day.
- 3.5 million unique individuals log into Meebo each month, and send and receive more than 57,000,000 messages.
- The average user stays on Meebo for around 70 minutes. That’s 122 years every day if you combine each unique.
- Meebo Me, Meebo’s widget service which lets users embed widgets onto their website, blog, or MySpace account, has had over 42,000 unique widgets embedded, which have been seen by more than 6 million people.
I have to say, some of these statistics are quite amazing and represent a fair bit of the mainstream users of Web 2.0. From what I can draw, the majority of the Meebo users are the MySpace generation, aged 15 - 29. They go to schools and colleges, they use IM, who else would need to use a service like Meebo at such frequency, as opposed to say a desktop-based alternative?
Netvibes, an AJAX-based desktop startpage which Meebo can integrate into, released a claim last month that they had over 5 million users. Of course, no one can forget MySpace hitting 100 million users back in August, along with a group of social networking sites that already fall into the 10s of millions.
Meebo’s notable competitors include KoolIM, eBuddy, RadiusIM, and Mabber. Another interesting fact about Meebo is that it is supposedly programmed in C++, a rare choice for such a tool in today’s world. Oh, and congratulations to the 500,000th user, who is now the proud owner of a Meebo t-shirt. Let’s just hope whoever it is isn’t caught wearing it around the school computer lab! 
[tags]Meebo, Web-Based IM, AJAX[/tags]
very nice article, i think meebo is really making a BUZZ out there, time will tell who will win the web IM race, its very very early.
check out our site http://www.koolim.com
don’t bother checking koolim.com , it doesn’t compare to meebo or any other web im apps out there.
i use koolim since meebo is blocked, i am a meebo fan but when its blocked, what can you do, ebuddy is also blocked, now the problem with koolim is that they have popups and its not stable yet, if they can embed like meebo and make stable, they will be a bigger hit i think.
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Hi there,
check out http://www.koolim.com
Have a look at AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Sametime.
awesom stuff, check it out.
Yupz, Koolim is nice, but i’m sticking with eBuddy or Meebo.
Meebo’s got the multi client login, but eBuddy’s got the better application, can’t these two just merge or something?
Check out the new embedded version of Kool IM.
http://www.koolim.com
Interesting article, and I’m a little bit late, but why is C++ a “rare choice for such a tool in today’s world”? That’s incredibly ignorant. As you pointed out, it gets nearly one million hits per day and growing. It’s also doing complex operations with chat protocols, etc. I hope you’re not suggesting that Java or some other interpreted language would be better suited for this type of work.
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