Five Top Rated Instant Messengers

From the general survey by voting through internet regarding favorite instant messaging applications, thousands of comments have been received. This study shows that the five most top rated Instant Messengers are

1) Digsby (Windows)

2) Pidgin (Windows / Linux)

3) Meebo (Web)

4) Adium (MAC OS X)

5) Trillian (Windows)

Digsby (Windows)

Digsby is a multiprotocol IM client. It is developed by dotSyntax, LLC.With the help of this you can chat with your friends either on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, or Jabber by just managing the buddy list. Its also act as an email notification tool because it keeps record of new email and alert you about email from that, also you can use other options like ‘Delete’ or ‘Report Spam’ . It supports email from MySpace, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. It also act as a social networking tool. It is attracting the users by setting their minds to IM + Email + Social Networking = Digsby which indicated all things are available at one place and that is Digsby. Currently its version is available for windows but for linux and Mac, the versions are in the process of development.

Pidgin (Windows / Linux)

Pidgin is a multi-platform instant messaging client. It is an open source, easy to use and free chat client. It supports the following chat networks like AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo! and Zephyr. It is extensible like firefox because you can add your own improved functionality and tools to Pidgin by simply installing a plug-in.

Meebo (Web)

It was founded in 2005 and it facilitates the real-time social interactions with instant messaging and group chat. It is so far a widely used web-based chat application. It can be used with any operating system anywhere just you need to connect with internet. With the help of this, the users gather their friends on a single buddy list to communicate in real-time across different IM platforms, communities, and traditional social networks. It supports AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, MySpace IM, Facebook Chat, and more.

Adium (MAC OS X)

Adium is a freely available open source instant messaging application developed by the Adium team. It is particularly designed for Mac OS X. Through Adium users can connect to any number of messaging accounts.It supports AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more. Adium is also extensible with plug-ins just like Pidgin.

Trillian (Windows)

Trillian is an instant messaging application for Windows. It is developed by Cerulean Studios. It was at first commercially released on September 10, 2002.It supports many multiple IM services like AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Bonjour, XMPP, and Skipper networks. It needs some development in order to compete with other messengers. However, the beta-release of Trillian Astra is available to use.

The above was a brief introduction about five most widely used instant messengers.