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Tuesday, June 18, 2002

http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/enterprise/article/0,,10816_1366931,00.html

U.S. In-Home IM Usage Hits 41M
Bob Woods

Nearly 40% of the active U.S.-based Internet-using population at home logged onto one of the public instant-messaging (IM) networks at least once in the month of May, while 31% of U.S. business 'Net surfers used IM in that same time frame, according to a new study from Nielsen//NetRatings. Broken out in numbers of users, more than 41 million consumers used one of the four IM networks -- AOL's AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger -- in May, while nearly 12.6 million office workers used instant messaging, according to Nielsen//NetRatings....

 


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