Most Popular Messengers 1998 - 2022

Threema FTW

I like Telegram.

MSN ❤️

What happened in the early 2000s to make MSN jump to number 1 so fast? also have never even heard of Tencent or WeChat

Wait i have to set my AIM away message.

I had MSN from 2004-2006ish Yahoo around the same time Aim 2005 til it’s demise in 2017 those were the big ones for me

Say what y'all want. Windows live is The goat of messengers. If you know you know

WhatsApp sucks!

You forgot to add imo messenger.

Nomore aim and icq is full of Scammers

RIP MIRC ..... legit felt like a Hackers Chat club 😅

Yahoo please come back

where is signal?

No Powwow?!?1

What a pity most people outside China haven't used WeChat yet. It's so fascinating and convenient. If without the pressure of politics, it definitely be #1.

I've been using messengers since MSN Messenger but I never heard about this Tencent QQ. What is this a chinese messenger?

I guess I need to learn more about WhatsApp.

Would be nice if nobody spied on you when using these apps. No privacy and personal security whatever it is now.

Signal and Telegram. The rest is garbage.

The hell is "WeChat"?

Msn Menagerge

Menagerge

Leave it to Microsoft to make the brilliant business decision to throw away their market leading product.

who else remembers their ICQ number?

And still Telegram is the best chat app ever.

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Well, using Internet since 2004 I had never heard about this top list messengers. Used only ICQ, Skype and now Discord. Who are those ppl who use Tencent or WeChat? Never met them.

I like yahoo messenger. I remember you can launch a live drawing pad while chatting with each other, so you can draw stuff instead of just typing it. I don’t understand why the latest message apps don’t have that function. It was pretty neat and handy.

Аська никогда не была на первом месте? Прикол))

Need actual data

Missing polish gadu-gadu which in 2007 had 7mln of users.

I love that iMessage is basically just the population of the US lol

Me parece muy bajo el número de usuarios de mIRC. Aquí en España a finales de los 90 lo tenía todo el mundo que tuviese conexión a internet y los chavales íbamos a los cyber cafés a "ligar" chateando a través de mIRC. Que tiempos...

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I never heard of Tencent QQ before this video

Fiquei surpreso que o ICQ figurou no top 10 até o início de 2012. Lembro que ja no início dos anos 2000 quando surgiu o MSN, absolutamente ninguém ficava mais on-line no ICQ.

I feel like it’s weird that instagram isn’t on the list at all, maybe it was forgotten??

ICQ was perfect. What happen? It was sleek, capable and fun to use!

i still use mirc

Total and COMPLETE BS.... those numbers are way off what I actually know, and knew at the time.
Among others, I was the ICQ user 42 millionth+ on 2001 already... and Skype had already more users too...
TOTAL AND COMPLETE BS!

Wtf is whatsapp?

'WhatsApp has entered the chat!'

ICQ on PC technically was the best messenger of all time. So sad they missed the smartphone opportunity!

How is discord not like top 5

Previously I have MSN and Yahoo Messenger, now I use more WhatsApp and Telegram only, I know about ICQ in 2001

Where is Signal?

Those thrown eggs busting on the window, followed by that annoying laugh. Yahoo messenger was the best.

sorry dude but where is the first project of Durov, VK?

I've never even heard of Tencent QQ. Everyone I knew back in 2000 was using AOL, ICQ, or yahoo.

where do you find such precise information about this kind of data?do you make some kind of assumptions regarding these developments?