* According to the source, data includes all registered users at Yahoo. ** According to the source, XMPP is a Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, which is used on Facebook, Gmail, GMX and Jabberer.org. *** The source got their data from a Facebook company information, in which Facebook equates the number of all users with the number of Facebook instant messaging tool users.
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