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To some of you, this might be a shock. To the rest of you that prey on poor, unsuspecting girls with webcams... not so surprised.Apparently 14.5% of all online time is spent on MSN Live Messenger -- 14.5% of 27 billion total hours.
To put it into perspective, the next biggest service is Facebook at at 5.2% with YouTube coming in third at 4.4% (and Google's biggest slice of the online pie.)
One has to wonder if people with Messenger logged in in the background counts towards the total -- I imagine it does. So the totals are probably somewhat skewed -- but in either case, you can find all of the data on the original comScore report. Perhaps most impressive is Facebook's 200% climb in usage since the same time last year!
[via SeattlePi]
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Subscribe to commentsSinani201Nov 7th 2009 10:11PM
People still use MSN Messenger?
MSN Messenger is the Myspace of IMing
Saint SeminoleNov 7th 2009 11:08PM
I don't know anyone that still uses *any* messenger apps... Sadly, I do still know people who are on Facebook. I've been evangelizing them for months, trying to break them of this bad habit. :-)
Matt S.Nov 7th 2009 11:54PM
There hasn't been a new version of MSN Messenger released since Aug 2005. Everyone learned that MSN was MSN so they can learn that WLM is WLM. Microsoft needs to stop letting MSN Messenger connect to the network like Yahoo did. Yahoo recently cut off access to the network from v7.5 or older, users of Windows older than XP will just have to live with it or use Windows Messenger. Then maybe the name MSN Messenger will finally die off. I'm not trying troll here, I just think WLM deserves to be called what it really is and has been for 4 years now.
Sebastian AnthonyNov 7th 2009 11:55PM
Read my comment above... I know the difference!
But other users might not, which is why I refer to it both as MSN Messenger and MSN Live Messenger :)
Matt S.Nov 8th 2009 12:13AM
Well I was just late in posting the comment. I typed it up a few hours ago. So apparently someone else said the exact thing I did already.
The reason why no one knows what WLM is, is because no one actually calls it WLM, they still call it MSN. Also I was mainly talking about the title of the article.. As I said, they learned the name of MSN because it was called MSN. If MS would stop letting people use the actual MSN messenger. The name would disappear.
Sebastian AnthonyNov 8th 2009 8:49AM
Hm... you think people would call it Live Messenger?
I still think people would call it simply 'MSN' :)
NakkiNyanNov 8th 2009 12:40AM
Part of the problem is a lot of the world thinks that AIM is for America only, I can't even count how many I had to tell it wasn't the case. Then, Yahoo has the problem of having a Japanese version that has it's own server not connected with the rest (good multi client programs connect to both) let alone the crappy clients for non windows users with features completely missing.
Sebastian AnthonyNov 8th 2009 8:50AM
Curiously, AOL is only 'America Online' in America. Rest of the world they are AOL (for obvious reasons!) -- but I don't know why this means AIM's adoption is only in the US. Perhaps there were commercials for it, but only in the US?
EvilNov 8th 2009 4:18AM
Live Messenger accounts for only 70% of Microsoft 14.5%.
michadpzNov 8th 2009 8:51AM
Now a lot of poeple use the chat option on facebook.
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wvdboschNov 8th 2009 9:40AM
I agree with #29 by @Evil. Be careful with interpreting statistics. The original report shows that the number 14,5% is the total amount spent by internet users on Microsoft websites and services. Of that time, 70% is spent using MSN Messenger.
Just like some others, I also wonder how they calculated time spent on Messenger. Idle time would indeed make this number meaningless.
SeanNov 8th 2009 11:56AM
It might come on a default XP install, but it won't log you in unless you associate your account with it.
MandyNov 9th 2009 1:19PM
The only reason I use MSN (Live) is that my boyfriend uses it at work, to connect the IT in different offices; it's the only program they're officially "allowed" to use because it has inter-office functionality built in.