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Wait, what? How did yet another instant messenger client get a million users in 2 weeks?
by swombat 16y ago
Wait, what? How did yet another instant messenger client get a million users in 2 weeks?
- Groxx 16y agoBot-generated accounts?
- tommi 16y agoI would suspect that as well or by counting relationships instead of actual accounts. Let's ask them: http://www.kik.com/blog/2010/11/zero-to-a-million-in-15-days/#comment-255 http://www.kik.com/blog/2010/11/zero-to-a-million-in-15-days...
- bjonathan 16y agoI dont think so, my facebook feed is currently assaulted by friends asking and sharing their KIK ID (and none of them is a geek or an early adopter usually)
- paulgb 16y agoI don't think so. Look how many people are talking about it on twitter: http://twitter.com/search?q=kik http://twitter.com/search?q=kik I also know Ted and he's not the type to make up numbers for attention. Keep in mind that they've been working on some variation of this for over a year, so while they took off virally very quickly, it's not an "overnight success", it's a "hard work finally pays off" one.
- GVRV 16y agoWhen teens text thousands of times a week and texts cost $1000+/MB, are you surprised?
- Qz 16y agoThey only cost that much if you don't get an unlimited plan.
- citricsquid 16y agoWe passed 600,000 users around midnight yesterday, after launching the product from a user base of 0 two weeks ago today. From Thursday, 3 days ago. I looked around the blog, it seems they "went viral" around November 1st. I also found a claim they're getting 3 new registrations per second. Very strange, but also fantastic if it's real! I don't have any of these devices it supports, but I get the impression the cross compatibility is what caused the popularity.