
Even today, networks such as Freenode are the home to tens of thousands of developers, engineers, and other tech oriented people. It’s one of the oldest chatting tools that has remained dominant in its market since its original inception. The good ‘ol Internet Relay Chat, otherwise known as IRC or mIRC. Lately, more and more developers are also paying attention to features such as hardened security, since by now everyone knows how easy it is for the secret service companies to spy on people, anywhere on the web. These are the features that, of course, only programmers would look for.



More and more people are upgrading from feature phones to smartphones accelerating the move from traditional calling and SMS to social messaging, to become the dominant way of staying in touch on the phone, because it is generally cheaper to send IM messages via social messaging than to send SMS, not limited to the 140-character limit of SMS, and they have more features than regular texting.Īmong other features such as text chat, group chat, message notifications, status updates, and media sharing, one specific aspect of social messaging platforms that made it popular was the usage of stickers or little rich images to depict mood and convey messages in non-verbal format.Īnother feature of social messaging are in-app services / utilities, such as sticker camera, social games, other virtual items, business accounts and its integration with other devices, such as vending machines.
TOP BEST INSTANT MESSENGER ANDROID
Some examples of popular social messaging include BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, KakaoTalk, Line, WeChat, and WhatsApp.Ĭhat applications are topping the iOS and Android most downloaded applications lists. Social messaging or social messaging applications or chat applications are instant messaging or mobile messaging clients that are built around social networking platforms. This chart shows Most Popular Messaging App in Every Country.
