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You spend more time on MSN Messenger than ANYTHING else

Download Squad  Nov 07 09

Filed under: Internet, Google, Microsoft

To some of you, this might be a shock. To the rest of you that prey on poor, unsuspecting girls with webcams... not so surprised. Apparently 14.5% of all online time is spent on MSN Live Messenger -- 14.5% of 27 billion total hours. To put it into perspective, the next biggest service is Facebook at at 5.2% with YouTube coming in third at 4.4% (and Google's biggest slice of the online pie.) One has to wonder if people with Messenger logged in in the background counts towards the total -- I imagine it does. So the totals are probably somewhat skewed -- but in either case, you can find all of the data on the original comScore report. Full story...

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