Most Popular Instant Messengers 1995 – 2020
September 10, 2020
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Description
In this data visualization video I look at the most popular instant messaging apps based on monthly active users. It includes the first graphical instant messaging app, PowWow. It was far ahead of its time but did not gain much traction. Here are the ones I included:
1995 PowWow First Graphical Standalone IM Client First with VoIP, whiteboard, text-to-speech, surf together, audio player
1996 ICQ First widely adopted IM client
1997 AIM Initially integrated into AOL Desktop
1998 Yahoo! Messenger
1999 QQ Popular in China
1999 MSN Messenger AKA Windows Live Messenger
2003 Skype Focused on video-chat
2005 Google Talk
2005 Blackberry Messenger
2009 WhatsApp Developed by former Yahoo employees
2009 Kik Messenger Reached 40% of US teens by 2016
2010 Viber
2011 WeChat
2011 iMessage
2011 SnapChat
2012 LINE
2012 Hike Messenger
2013 Telegram
2013 Facebook Messenger
Source: Captain Gizmo youtube channel
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