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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by shuw on Saturday February 22, 2014 @12:18AM (#7281069)
Skype has 663 million "accounts", very few of these were active.

According to http://www.statisticbrain.com/skype-statistics/, only 31 million Skype users are active as of 2012.

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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by coldtea on Saturday February 22, 2014 @10:38PM (#7284827)
The statistics sounds BS (as a lot of them are).

FWIW, I don't know anyone (across 5 countries of friends and business partners) who doesn't use Skype.

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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by shubhamjain on Sunday February 23, 2014 @01:46AM (#7285170)
Skype's use prevails mostly around international calling, video conferencing and professional chats. It isn't really an everyday use thing like WhatsApp which, where dominating, is an entire replacement of SMS. My Skype account gets sparingly used for anything else than talking to a client.
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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by coldtea on Sunday February 23, 2014 @06:13AM (#7285572)
That could make sense, because that's what I've seen it used for: international calling, video conferencing and professional chats.

Still, wouldn't that amount to more than 30M users?

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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by jeffdubin on Saturday February 22, 2014 @03:58PM (#7283561)
Only?
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