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Comparison of user features of messaging platforms refers to a comparison of all the various user features of various electronic instant messaging platforms. This includes a wide variety of resources; it includes standalone apps, platforms within websites, computer software, and various internal functions available on specific devices, such as iMessage for iPhones.
This is an alphabetic list of defunct instant messaging platforms, showing the name, when it was discontinued and the type of client.. AOL Instant Messenger, 1997–2017 ...
(Contact list syncs automatically with phonebook contacts) No Tencent QQ: No Threema: No Trillian: Yes Viber •Phone number (Contact list syncs automatically with phonebook contacts) Yes WeChat •Username •Phone number •Phonebook contacts scanning if enabled (sending friend requests are required) WhatsApp: No •Phone number
Yahoo! Messenger added video capabilities in 2001; [32] by 2005, such features were built-in also in AIM, MSN Messenger, and Skype. [33] There were a reported 100 million users of instant messaging in 2001. [34] As of 2003, AIM was the globally most popular instant messenger with 195 million users and exchanges of 1.6 billion messages daily. [2]
WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. [13] It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages, [14] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.
Messenger, [11] also known as Facebook Messenger, is an American proprietary instant messaging service developed by Meta Platforms.Originally developed as Facebook Chat in 2008, the client application of Messenger is currently available on iOS and Android mobile platforms, Windows and macOS desktop platforms, through the Messenger.com web application, and on the standalone Facebook Portal ...
In May 2012 security researchers noticed that new updates of WhatsApp sent messages with encryption, [40] [41] [42] but described the cryptographic method used as "broken." [43] [44] In August of the same year, the WhatsApp support staff stated that messages sent in the "latest version" of the WhatsApp software for iOS and Android (but not BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and Symbian) were encrypted ...
MSN Web Messenger was first launched in August 2004. On the contact list for MSN Messenger users, the status of a contact using Web messenger is either displayed as a globe, or by appending the word (Web) after their name, depending on the version of MSN Messenger used. MSN Web Messenger was officially discontinued on June 30, 2009. [1] In ...