Instant messaging (English Wikipedia)

"Better Business IMs - Business Technology". Im.about.com. 2012-04-10. Archived from the original on 2011-04-30. Retrieved 2012-05-11.
"Reader Questions IM Privacy at Work". Im.about.com. 2008-03-15. Archived from the original on 2010-08-25. Retrieved 2012-05-11.

adchina.io

Shreya (2022-09-05). "WeChat Statistics 2022 - How Many Users Does WeChat Have?". AdChina.io. Retrieved 2023-02-13.

altaba.com

"Yahoo! Messenger Launches "Imvironments™" with Next Generation of Yahoo! Messenger Service | Altaba Inc".

anta.net

blog.anta.net

"Why just say no to IM at work". Blog.anta.net. October 29, 2009. ISSN 1797-1993. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved October 29, 2009.

aol.com

help.aol.com

"AOL Instant Messenger's Real-Time IM feature". Help.aol.com. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
"AIM has been discontinued as of December 15, 2017". help.aol.com. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017.

archive.today

"ESG compliance report excerpt, Part 1: Introduction". Archived from the original on July 16, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2007.

bbc.co.uk

news.bbc.co.uk

Kelly, Jon (24 May 2010). "Instant messaging: This conversation is terminated". BBC. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
"The decline of instant messaging". BBC News. May 24, 2010.

blog.google

"New features to celebrate Messages' 1 billion RCS users". Google. 2023-11-30. Retrieved 2023-12-08.

bloomberg.com

Speed, Ilya Khrennikov 2014-07-29T18:43:55Z- Comments Email Print. "ICQ Messenger Is Growing for the First Time in Years". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2017-04-04.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

books.google.com

Fetter, Mirko (2019). New Concepts for Presence and Availability in Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing. University of Bamberg Press. p. 38. ISBN 9783863096236. The basic concept of sending instantaneously messages to logged in users came with ... CTSS ...

businessmirror.com.ph

"Viber expands foothold in the Philippines in 2021 - BusinessMirror". BusinessMirror. 17 December 2021.

chatbotnewsdaily.com

"The rise of messaging platforms". The Economist, via Chatbot News Daily. 2017-01-22. Retrieved 14 March 2018.

cmswire.com

"Oracle Buzzes with Updates for its Beehive Collaboration Platform". CMSWire. May 12, 2018. Retrieved October 16, 2018.

cnet.com

"Discord, Slack for gamers, tops 250 million registered users". CNET. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
"IBM instant messaging links to AIM, Yahoo, Google". CNET. Reuters. Retrieved 2019-11-06.

doi.org

Ling, Rich; Lai, Chih-Hui (2016-10-01). "Microcoordination 2.0: Social Coordination in the Age of Smartphones and Messaging Apps". Journal of Communication. 66 (5): 834–856. doi:10.1111/jcom.12251. ISSN 0021-9916.
Saleh, Saad (2015). IM Session Identification by Outlier Detection in Cross-correlation Functions. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3524.5602.
Saleh, Saad (December 2014). Breaching IM Session Privacy Using Causality. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). doi:10.13140/2.1.1112.2244.

eff.org

"Secure Messaging Scorecard". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Archived from the original on November 15, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2015.

element.io

"Element group video messenger | Group chat | Team communication productivity app | Matrix open network | Decentralized end-to-end encryption". element.io. Retrieved 2020-11-11.

emarketer.com

"Infatuation with Messaging Apps Continues in Indonesia - eMarketer". www.emarketer.com. Retrieved 2021-10-01.

engadget.com

"Google's Allo puts AI in a messaging app". Engadget. 18 May 2016. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

entrepreneur.com

Clifford, Catherine (2013-12-11). "Top 10 Apps for Instant Messaging (Infographic)". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2020-08-06.

expandedramblings.com

"26 Amazing Skype Statistics and Facts (2019)". expandedramblings. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
"26 Amazing Skype Statistics and Facts (2019)". expandedramblings. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 2019-09-06.

eztalks.com

"8 Examples of Instant Messaging | ezTalks". www.eztalks.com. Retrieved 2020-08-06.

facebook.com

blog.facebook.com

This number is based on the number of Facebook accounts ("500 Million Stories | Facebook". Blog.facebook.com. Retrieved 2013-07-11.) Google talk and WLM accounts. ("Anyone can build a Messenger client—with open standards access via XMPP". Windowsteamblog.com. Retrieved 2013-07-11.) Further, as there are many other open source servers (some also with companies behind it), the number provided is probably too small. However, many of these servers are not federated, and so, do not actually interact as is usually expected of XMPP servers.

fb.com

insights.fb.com

"More Than a Message: The Evolution of Conversation". insights.fb.com. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

g2.com

learn.g2.com

Kashyap, Vartika. "Are Messaging Apps at Work Affecting Team Productivity?". learn.g2.com. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

gitbooks.io

towcenter.gitbooks.io

"A Brief History of Chat Apps · Guide to Chat Apps". towcenter.gitbooks.io. Retrieved 2020-03-23.

history-computer.com

"History of IRC". 4 January 2021.

historyofbranding.com

"The History of Skype". 28 November 2018.

hootsuite.com

blog.hootsuite.com

"11 New People Join Social Media Every Second (And Other Impressive Stats)". Archived from the original on 2018-01-30.

howstuffworks.com

computer.howstuffworks.com

"How Instant Messaging Works". HowStuffWorks. 2001-03-28. Retrieved 2023-10-27.

imsecuritycenter.com

"IM Security Center". Archived from the original on October 22, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2007.

imvu.com

"IMVU Information". Retrieved May 16, 2015.

marketwatch.com

"Information: Facebook's Messenger has overtaken Apple's iMessage". marketwatch.com. 17 January 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-08-08.

messengerpeople.com

"Messaging App Usage Statistics Around the World". MessengerPeople. 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

metrixlab.com

"How messaging apps change the way we communicate". MetrixLab. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

multicians.org

Tom Van Vleck. "Instant Messaging on CTSS and Multics". Multicians.org. Retrieved 2012-05-11.

naspers.com

"Brands | Gadu Gadu". Naspers.com. Archived from the original on March 20, 2009. Retrieved 2010-06-29.

networkdictionary.com

wiki.networkdictionary.com

instant messaging Archived February 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, NetworkDictionary.com.

oberlo.com

my.oberlo.com

"Number of WeChat Users [Updated Feb 2023] | Oberlo". my.oberlo.com. Retrieved 2023-02-13.

oup.com

academic.oup.com

Ling, Rich; Lai, Chih-Hui (2016-10-01). "Microcoordination 2.0: Social Coordination in the Age of Smartphones and Messaging Apps". Journal of Communication. 66 (5): 834–856. doi:10.1111/jcom.12251. ISSN 0021-9916.

pewresearch.org

"Part 1. Introduction: The basics of instant messaging". Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech. 2004-09-01. Retrieved 2023-10-27.

philstar.com

"Viber usage spikes as pandemic strikes - Philstar.com". The Philippine STAR.

pidgin.im

"Important and Long Delayed News". April 6, 2007. Archived from the original on April 8, 2007.

qlinklives.org

"Screenshot of a Quantum Link OLM". Archived from the original on June 19, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2012.

qz.com

Horwitz, Josh (25 August 2015). "Why WhatsApp bombed in the US, while Snapchat and Kik blew up". Quartz. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

realjabber.org

"RealJabber.org's animation of real-time text". Realjabber.org. Retrieved 2012-05-11.

researchgate.net

Saleh, Saad (2015). IM Session Identification by Outlier Detection in Cross-correlation Functions. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3524.5602.
Saleh, Saad (December 2014). Breaching IM Session Privacy Using Causality. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). doi:10.13140/2.1.1112.2244.

respond.io

"Most Popular Messaging Apps: Top Messaging Apps 2021 - Respond.io".

sameroom.io

"A Brief History of Chat Services" (PDF). sameroom.io. 19 April 2023.

schneier.com

Schneier, Bruce; Seidel, Kathleen; Vijayakumar, Saranya (11 February 2016). "Multi-Encrypting Messengers – in: A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products" (PDF). Retrieved 28 March 2017.

sf.net

Adams, David; Maier, Ann-Kathrin (6 June 2016). "BIG SEVEN Study, open source crypto-messengers to be compared - or: Comprehensive Confidentiality Review & Audit: Encrypting E-Mail-Client & Secure Instant Messenger, Descriptions, tests and analysis reviews of 20 functions of the applications based on the essential fields and methods of evaluation of the 8 major international audit manuals for IT security investigations including 38 figures and 87 tables" (PDF). Retrieved 22 March 2017.

similarweb.com

"Most Popular Messaging Apps by Country - Similarweb".

skype.com

blogs.skype.com

"34 Million People Concurrently Online on Skype – - Skype Blogs". Skype Blogs. Archived from the original on November 18, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2015.

statista.com

900 million active users. Retrieved 7 April 2016
"Facebook Messenger: monthly active users 2017". Statista. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
"LINE: number of monthly active users 2016 | Statistic". Statista. Retrieved 2017-04-22.
"Number of estimated Skype users registered worldwide from 2009 to 2024". statista. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
"Number of monthly active Snapchat users 2013-2016". Statista.
"Mind-Blowing Viber Statistics for 2019". statista. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
"Number of unique Viber user IDs from June 2011 to March 2020". statista. Retrieved 2020-09-11.
"WhatsApp: number of users 2013-2017 | Statista". Statista. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
"Number of daily active WhatsApp Status users from 1st quarter 2017 to 1st quarter 2019". statista. Retrieved 2019-08-09.

techcrunch.com

"eBuddy Blows Through 250 Million User Accounts, Android Up 300% – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. 21 September 2011.
"Kik already has over 6,000 bots reaching 300 million registered users". Tech Crunch. 11 May 2016.
"Telegram tops 1 billion downloads". TechCrunch. 30 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
"IRC Has Lost 60% of Its Users Since 2003, but Life as a Robot is Just Beginning". 6 January 2013.
"PalTalk: It Was "Flattering" To Be Included In The PRISM Slidedeck". TechCrunch. 17 June 2013. Retrieved 2013-08-06. PalTalk, a profitable group video chat site that's been around for more than a decade and has about 5.5 million monthly uniques [...]

social.techcrunch.com

"Cybersecurity 101: How to choose and use an encrypted messaging app". TechCrunch. 25 December 2018. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

techtarget.com

"What is Instant Messaging? - Definition from SearchUnifiedCommunications". Unified Communications. Retrieved 2023-07-22.

searchstorage.techtarget.com

"ESG compliance report excerpt, Part 1: Introduction". Archived from the original on July 16, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2007.

telecomtalk.info

91 million Active BBM Users. Retrieved 6 March 2015

telegram.org

"700 Million Users and Telegram Premium". Telegram. 2022-06-21. Retrieved 2022-07-08.

telemessage.com

"Text Messaging Apps Are Transforming Workplace Communications". TeleMessage. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

theguardian.com

Dredge, Stuart (2014-11-06). "How secure is your favourite messaging app? Today's Open Thread". the Guardian. Retrieved May 16, 2015.

theregister.co.uk

"Skype hauled into court after refusing to hand call records to cops". The Register. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2017.

theregister.com

Claburn, Thomas. "EU mandated interoperable messaging not so simple: Paper". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2023-11-11.

theverge.com

"Chat apps surpass SMS for the first time, study finds". 29 April 2013.

twitter.com

"Hootsuite 🦉 on Twitter: "There are now only 25 countries around the world where a Facebook-owned app isn't the top messenger platform..." / Twitter".
Telegram Messenger [@telegram] (January 12, 2021). "Telegram surpassed 500 million active users" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

ubergizmo.com

Lee, Tyler; PDT, on 06/21/2013 02:28. "BBM Is The Favorite Messaging Platform In The UK According To Research". Ubergizmo. Retrieved 2021-10-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

uspto.gov

"Summary Of Final Decisions Issued By The Trademark Trial And Appeal Board" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-11.

visualcapitalist.com

"The Evolution of Instant Messaging". 17 November 2016.

vnexpress.net

e.vnexpress.net

"When chatting apps can be overwhelming - VnExpress International".

web.archive.org

"Summary Of Final Decisions Issued By The Trademark Trial And Appeal Board" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-11.
"Important and Long Delayed News". April 6, 2007. Archived from the original on April 8, 2007.
"AOL Instant Messenger's Real-Time IM feature". Help.aol.com. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
"Screenshot of a Quantum Link OLM". Archived from the original on June 19, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
"AIM has been discontinued as of December 15, 2017". help.aol.com. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017.
instant messaging Archived February 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, NetworkDictionary.com.
"Better Business IMs - Business Technology". Im.about.com. 2012-04-10. Archived from the original on 2011-04-30. Retrieved 2012-05-11.
"Reader Questions IM Privacy at Work". Im.about.com. 2008-03-15. Archived from the original on 2010-08-25. Retrieved 2012-05-11.
"IM Security Center". Archived from the original on October 22, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2007.
"Why just say no to IM at work". Blog.anta.net. October 29, 2009. ISSN 1797-1993. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved October 29, 2009.
"Secure Messaging Scorecard". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Archived from the original on November 15, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
"11 New People Join Social Media Every Second (And Other Impressive Stats)". Archived from the original on 2018-01-30.
"Information: Facebook's Messenger has overtaken Apple's iMessage". marketwatch.com. 17 January 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-08-08.
"34 Million People Concurrently Online on Skype – - Skype Blogs". Skype Blogs. Archived from the original on November 18, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
"Brands | Gadu Gadu". Naspers.com. Archived from the original on March 20, 2009. Retrieved 2010-06-29.

whatsapp.com

blog.whatsapp.com

"Two Billion Users -- Connecting the World Privately". blog.whatsapp.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.

windowsteamblog.com

This number is based on the number of Facebook accounts ("500 Million Stories | Facebook". Blog.facebook.com. Retrieved 2013-07-11.) Google talk and WLM accounts. ("Anyone can build a Messenger client—with open standards access via XMPP". Windowsteamblog.com. Retrieved 2013-07-11.) Further, as there are many other open source servers (some also with companies behind it), the number provided is probably too small. However, many of these servers are not federated, and so, do not actually interact as is usually expected of XMPP servers.

worldcat.org

Ling, Rich; Lai, Chih-Hui (2016-10-01). "Microcoordination 2.0: Social Coordination in the Age of Smartphones and Messaging Apps". Journal of Communication. 66 (5): 834–856. doi:10.1111/jcom.12251. ISSN 0021-9916.
"Why just say no to IM at work". Blog.anta.net. October 29, 2009. ISSN 1797-1993. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved October 29, 2009.