Meebo Hitting Milestones

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Oct 10
2006

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Meebo is a web-based IM site (see my post & Nat's post). They provide web access to your MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk/Jabber, and AIM accounts on their slick web interface. The map above shows the users on Meebo on Tuesday night. It's a powerful image showing just how popular Meebo has become around the world.

Meebo just had their 500,000th account created (congratulations). You don't actually need an account to use Meebo, but if you do sign-up they do provide account storage and the relatively new ability to use the Meebo Me, their chat widget. To celebrate the event they revealed some of their user metrics.

How many times do people login every single day? 950,000!! You may ask how many of those are “unique?” About 670,000. It turns out most of you happen to log in about 1.4 times per day. Oh, and here’s another interesting one… how many network accounts do you all log in with on average? Also 1.4…which means 1.35 million network ID are logged in daily.
Over 3.5 million unique individuals log into meebo every month, and on a daily basis you’re all sending and receiving a mere 57,000,000 messages. If you aggregate all of the time everyone spends in meebo on a daily basis? 64,000,000 minutes which calculates to approximately 122 years! WOW! (click here to see a graph) It turns out you’re all sending and receiving a message just about once/minute, and you’re staying on meebo an average of 70 minutes/session.

They also revealed some figures about the two-month old Meebo Me, a chat widget for personal websites such as blogs and MySpace pages. They've been installed on 42,000 websites and served to over 6 million unique users. Those are some incredible numbers.

I've embedded a Meebo Me widget in this post. It should be an interesting experiment. If you have a thought about Meebo (or anything else) say "Hi"; I'll be online a lot.

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steve [10.11.06 07:56 AM]

check out www.koolim.com

supports aim, icq, msn, yahoo, irc, jabber, sametime, etc.

check it out, it rocks.

Jordan Mitchell [10.13.06 10:19 AM]

Hi Brady, have you received any MeeboMe messages yet? I'm not surprised that for this product they released numbers on how many publishers and uniques, but not how many MeeboMe messages they've trafficked. I just can't see users messaging on a per page basis. Maybe it's just me.

Yes those are some incredible MeeboMe numbers, and interesting to analyze. Let's review: over two months they report 42K unique widgets (publishers, I suppose) published on 600K unique pages seen by about 6M unique users.

So what this tells me is that the average publisher has the widget on 14.2 pages, where it's been seen over the past 60 days by a total of 10 people. Of course, this does not account at all for the ramping up curve, but that's not a lot of people per publisher or page. I would be willing to bet that the number of IM conversations via MeeboMe has been less than 60K, or 1 in 100 uniques.

I get the Meebo product and see the value, but I'm not sure I get the MeeboMe product. Do you really want any ole' visitor to this post for instance to be able to IM you directly? Why?

I think the "strangers connecting to each other by IM" thing on the Web is certainly of value, but to be of value to the general (mass market) online population, there has to be more context. And it's not going to be page-based -- there are way more pages on the web than people.

Allen [10.15.06 04:26 PM]

FYI, I just completed an interview with Seth from Meebo:
http://www.centernetworks.com/interview-with-meebo

Christian Ter [10.16.06 02:06 AM]

Jeff [10.25.06 06:44 AM]

Does anyone else have trouble logging onto meebo. I often get a white screen that does not allow me to log on to anything. Can someone help?

seth [10.25.06 08:09 AM]

hey jeff - i'm guessing that you're probably behind some kind of proxy when trying to access meebo. the proxy may disable javascript, but more likely the problem will actually clear itself within a few days. you might also try accessing meebo via IP and see if that works. here's a link to some IPs that work: http://forum.meebo.com/viewtopic.php?t=4629&highlight=ips

Gavin [12.06.06 06:18 AM]

Speaking of Milestones...

Has anyone been checking the stats of eBuddy?

These guys are appartantly Meebo's biggest competitor and I can tell you why:

An eBuddy press release suggested they have over 35 million users and (including?) 4 million mobile users!

How come no one in the US has heard about these guys??? It's a European company but I think their stats speak for themself!

www.ebuddy.com