Meebo stats
Meebo is growing incredibly fast. I mentioned them in October when they were first starting.
i heard that yesterday they had over 300,000 logins ... in one day! during that day they sent almost 9 million messages (implying almost 18 million carried). wow.
this is from a site that hasn't yet done anything to market itself and has no viral component (yet). what does this mean? it means that Meebo has a compelling product that people really love. i mean really love.
rumor is that Meebo's traffic is growing at over 10%/week. if that's true then Meebo should reach a hundred million messages carried in about 19 weeks (which would be May 31). will they do it? stay tuned and let's check back then....
Auren,
Any idea why such a rapid growth? I tried using it and was frustrated that it wouldn't remember my passwords. I prefer to use gaim on my multiple PCs, and the biggest problem I have with it is that my chat history is stored locally, so it gets fragmented. What is it that brings so many people to Meebo?
Patrick
Posted by: Patrick Lightbody | Jan 19, 2006 at 10:56
meebo seems to be the very best service for web-based IM. web-based is still not perfect but if you are a high-school student who lives on IM ... you want a good web-based system when you are in school (and cannot use an IM client).
Posted by: Auren Hoffman | Jan 19, 2006 at 14:43
Makes sense. I'd even use it myself if remembered my passwords, kept a searchable history of all my chats, and could somehow be "popped" out of the browser (when I use meebo I always accidentally close it). Perhaps a web-start Java app that renders it's own IE browser internally. That would be _really_ slick, since it would act like a full fledged IM client, but still be accessible on the web, and of course have the server-side chat log support.
Posted by: Patrick Lightbody | Jan 19, 2006 at 16:19
I am a trillian user but i like the in-browser experience that meebo offers. i wish it would store my login information so i would not have to enter it every time.
Posted by: Cem Sertoglu | Jan 23, 2006 at 23:02
Hey Auren,
Are you an investor in Sequoia's latest fund? They listed their angels as Callaghan, Epstein, and Black.
Posted by: Dru Nelson | Jan 26, 2006 at 18:14