Digsby and Social Networking

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Digsby Passes 1 Million Users; 3 Million IM and Social Media Accounts
July 23rd, 2009 by Ben Parr1 Comment
The social IM client DigsbyDigsby can not only connect you to your AIM and your GtalkGtalk accounts, but log you onto GmailGmail, FacebookFacebook and Twittier, too. A recent release fixed its RAM-eating problem , and now it seems that all of that hard work (and RAM-fixing) is paying off.

The company announced this afternoon that it reached a major milestone: 1,000,000 users. Considering that Digsby only launched 18 months ago, that’s an average growth rate of over 50,000 users per month – not too shabby for an IM startup.Digsby also revealed that while there are just over a million users, there are actually over 3 million IM, email, and social media accounts in the system – meaning an average of 3 accounts per user. While that number still doesn’t compare to Facebook’s 1 billion chat messages per day or Fbchat’s preinstalled 250 million users, it’s still an impressive count.

Then again, they support Facebook Chat, so FbChat’s growth is probably only a good thing for Digsby.