Top instant messaging destinations: Meebo grows 354%

Nielsen//NetRatings announced that the fastest growing instant messaging destination in the last 10 months was Meebo.com. Meebo’s unique audience increased 354 percent, from 434,000 in August 2006 when it first fell above reporting cutoff to 2.0 million in June 2007. Google Talk also saw triple digit growth in this time period, increasing 149 percent, from 904,000 to 2.3 million unique visitors.

Traffic to instant messaging destinations
  Unique audience, 000  
Destination August 2006 June 2007 Growth
Meebo 434 1,972 354%
IMVU 491 1,248 154%
Google Talk 904 2,252 149%
paltalk.com 355 447 26%
Skype Messenger 2,199 2,635 20%
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings