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Did any of these ever have 300 million users?
by amadeuspagel 3y ago
Did any of these ever have 300 million users?
- riffic 3y agowithout doing any further research I assume AOL Instant Messenger got pretty close. Windows Live Messenger, on the list, had 330 million active monthly users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger India TV claims Orkut was exactly that popular (300 m) https://www.indiatvnews.com/technology/news-orkut-farewell-mail-goes-viral-people-remembers-on-twitter-see-how-they-reacted-631992 https://www.indiatvnews.com/technology/news-orkut-farewell-m...
- scythe 3y agoOrkut didn't really die a natural death, though. It was cannibalized to juice Google+, which subsequently collapsed. "X" is definitely running right into a similar problem that Google+ faced: a good name can't save you but an awful name can sink you. I've never heard even the most ardent Musk fans defending the name change. It's ridiculous.
- abid786 3y agoGoogle+ had 540 million active users
- drcongo 3y agoActive is very debatable there, I think Google counted anyone who was signed into Google.
- omoikane 3y agoGoogle+ had a lot of active users, which is especially observable if you join the right communities. The demise of Google+ marked the loss of those communities, which I still sorely miss to this day. Those communities, plus stable infrastructure, great integration with photos, publicly viewable profiles without requiring sign-in, transparent moderation that I never knew I missed until I joined Diaspora, and no ads. It was a real shame.
- cma 3y agoThey removed google chat and replaced it with Hangouts locked behind Google+. A majority of users might have been just using that.
- dustedcodes 3y ago"active"
- esalman 3y agoPer Elon Musk, those are mostly bots.
- evilduck 3y agoDid Twitter? Even Musk was trying to argue it was all bots before he got stuck with the bill.