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Thursday, November 4

Kik, The New AIM for Smartphones

First, there was AIM, ADIDO and Yahoo!Messenger then we had Myspace. iChat and Skype came along with the inventions of the webcam. Now we all Skype, iChat, Google chat and use Facebook online to interact with our peers, families, friends and professionals. Now there is Kik Messenger is this just a fad or the next big thing like AIM was or Skype is.

Now what is Kik messenger, it is free-real time text messenger. Now it allows you to create a screen name or a username, depending on what you like to call it and chat back and forth between your friends on cell phones. Yet what makes it any different than texting between you and your friends? It is suppose to be quicker and more social than traditional SMS texting. Kik currently supports the Blackberry, Android, and iPhone.

It is apparently a fad that is quickly catching on Kik has had to upgrade their servers to handle the amount of people downloading their new application twice now. They ended up with a million users in just 15 days. Now as you log onto Facebook you see your friends updating their statuses with their Kik usernames. It is safe to say the only real determining factor of the success of Kik is how long will it last or will it just disappear when the next app for the smartphone comes out.


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