Techdirt Poll:

How Many IM Clients Do You Have On Your Desktop?

None! Keep them away / 26% / 227 votes

1 (and I force my friends to use the same one) / 19% / 167 votes

2 (how annoying) / 14% / 120 votes

3 (I just cannot quit) / 8% / 72 votes

4 or more (do not ask) / 3% / 25 votes

Trillian/Fire/equivalent meta-IM / 25% / 219 votes

What is IM? / 3% / 24 votes

I keep switching / 1% / 12 votes

866 total votes

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  1. Jan 8th, 2003 @ 1:48pm

    yay.

    by ScooterBoy

    yay. i like my IMs. YIM, MSN and AIM.

  2. Jan 10th, 2003 @ 2:32pm

    Re: yay.

    by Bish

    Nah, ICQ still, but I'm very ready to switch. I need a good ICQ client that doesn't crash, for I only belong to the one network but ICQ's bloated crashware (yes, please announce my freakin' birthday to my business contacts) is begging to be tossed out.

    []save me a cookie? Don't mind if I do.

  3. Jan 14th, 2003 @ 8:04am

    Re: yay.

    by Anonymous Coward

    If you're on Windows, try Miranda ICQ. Just google for it

  4. Jan 20th, 2003 @ 6:00pm

    4 here.

    by Bryan Price

    ICQ, AIM, MSN and Yahoo. :( It used to be just ICQ. I made everybody else use it. Then it got to the point where they wouldn't change or add, so I ended up with Yahoo next. Then I had problems with ICQ, and I ended up on AIM. Which I then had to have, since my fiancé used AOL. And another buddy talked me into MSN (even though I already had him under ICQ, AIM and Yahoo). It's truly obscene. I've tried Trillian, but didn't like it.

  5. Jan 21st, 2003 @ 10:56am

    how do I count them?

    by mhh5

    I've got multiple meta-IM apps plus YIM and iChat...

  6. Feb 13th, 2003 @ 8:54am

    Re: yay.

    by Devlor Nakarti

    I was about to suggest the same thing for him.
    Ironic.


    --btw, my website is down while I figure out how to get a web server going through my dsl router.

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