Meebo provides support for multiple IM protocols.
Meebo has always been an attractive alternative for the traditional instant messaging clients.
It can be accessed straight from the browser, without the need of installing anything. On the other hand, downloadable applications usually connect to a single network and, even if there are programs that come with multiple networks support, such as Pidgin, consumers choose to use Meebo because it requires only a tiny piece of configuration.
So, it’s obvious that Meebo is quite a useful solution, especially for instant messaging fans out there, and the recent stats provided by Hitwise come to confirm this. According to Heather Hopkins, VP Researcher of Hitwise UK, Meebo registered a considerable boost in popularity over the last year and its traffic doubled, being increased with no less than 110 percent.
Meebo ranked 13th among websites in the Social Networking and Forums category and 122 among All Categories of websites based on share of US Internet visits. The average session duration for the site was just over 9 minutes.
According to the stats provided by Hitwise, MSN’s Web Messenger is the second most popular web-based instant messaging client, although it lost quite an important percentage of its visitors.
The web-based instant messaging market seems to become more important for both companies and users, as top firms such as Microsoft and Yahoo are getting more involved in it while consumers prefer to use such a product instead of downloading and installing an operating system depended proprietary client application like pidgin.
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