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2. Instant messaging - Wikipedia

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   Overview. Instant messaging is a set of communication technologies used for text-based communication between two ( private messaging) or more (chat room) participants over the Internet or other types of networks (see also LAN messenger ). [6] IM chats happen in real-time.

3. WhatsApp - Wikipedia

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   WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. It allows users to send text , voice messages and video messages, [15] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

4. AIM (software) - Wikipedia

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   AIM ( AOL Instant Messenger, sometimes stylized as aim) was an instant messaging and presence computer program created by AOL, which used the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. AIM was popular by the late 1990s, in United States and other countries, and was ...

5. Telegram (software) - Wikipedia

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   Telegram is the most popular instant messaging application in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. [16] [17] As of 2024, registration to Telegram requires a smartphone . As of March 2024, [update] Telegram has more than 900 million monthly active users, [18] with India leading in the number of users. [19]

6. Comparison of user features of messaging platforms - Wikipedia

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   The most popular IM platforms were terminated, such as AIM which closed down and Windows Live Messenger which merged into Skype. Instant messaging has since seen a revival in popularity in the form of "messaging apps" (usually on mobile devices) which by 2014 had more users than social networks.

7. ICQ - Wikipedia

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   While ICQ was displaced by AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, and other competitors in the US and many other countries over the 2000s, it remained the most popular instant messaging network in Russian-speaking countries, and an important part of online culture. Popular UINs demanded over 11,000₽ in 2010.

8. Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients

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   Messaging services can operate around different models, based on security and accessibility considerations. A mobile-focused, phone number-based model operates on the concept of primary and secondary devices. Examples of such messaging services include: WhatsApp, Viber, Line, WeChat, Signal, etc. The primary device is a mobile phone and is ...

9. Comparison of instant messaging protocols - Wikipedia

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   YMSG ( Yahoo! Messenger ) ^ a b One-to-many / many-to-many communications primarily comprise presence information, publish/subscribe and groupchat distribution. Some technologies have the ability to distribute data by multicast, avoiding bottlenecks on the sending side caused by the number of recipients.