Instant messenger/realtime communication services

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Please indulge my research and factfinding for a few moments! This is a poll to determine which instant messager/realtime communication services our users use, and which single one you use most often, in order to figure out which services it might make sense to concentrate on integration with. (This is not to say that it's something we're definitely going to be doing! Just that, for instance, it wouldn't make any sense to work on sending notifications to/accepting entries from a service that few of our users are using.)

I'm sure I've forgotten some common IM services in the poll, so I left in an 'other'. (I deliberately left out irc, since that's not so much a one-to-one realtime communication service.)

Poll #3455

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 626

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Which instant messager/realtime communication services do you use regularly?

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AIM
364 (58.9%)

Google Talk
380 (61.5%)

ICQ
46 (7.4%)

Jabber (other than Google Talk/LJ Talk)
50 (8.1%)

LJ Talk
69 (11.2%)

Skype
178 (28.8%)

Windows Live/MSN Messenger
189 (30.6%)

Yahoo
186 (30.1%)

Other (enter below)
102 (16.5%)

If 'other', which ones?

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Which instant messager/realtime communication service do you use most often?

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AIM
165 (27.0%)

Google Talk
217 (35.5%)

ICQ
10 (1.6%)

Jabber (other than Google Talk/LJ Talk)
16 (2.6%)

LJ Talk
8 (1.3%)

Skype
32 (5.2%)

Windows Live/MSN Messenger
58 (9.5%)

Yahoo
50 (8.2%)

Other (enter below)
56 (9.2%)

If "other", which one?

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