Kik is a messaging application and service for Android, Blackberry, and iOS devices that allows for free texting across all three platforms. The service re-launched about two weeks ago and quickly jumped from 0 to 1,000,000 users:
What an incredible couple of weeks. We re-launched Kik Messenger 15 days ago with 0 users, and at 12:43 PM EST today, we signed up our 1,000,000th user. We didn’t expect this. We didn’t ask for it. But we couldn’t be happier or more excited.
We are humbled and honoured that so many people around the world have embraced Kik. For that, we can only say thank you to all our users. Every hour, 25,000 more people are discovering that Kik’s blazing fast, reliable and inexpensive data messaging is light years ahead of slow, unreliable, and expensive SMS messaging.
You read that right. They are apparently getting 25,000 new Kik users every hour. They service actually went down from 1:55pm EST to 8:25PM due to the load on the servers. It’s not a surprise that an app like Kik would take off. While many of us with smartphones also have unlimited data and SMS, many plans don’t include such luxuries. Kick solves a messaging problem that obviously affects a large number of mobile users.
They aren’t stopping there, though. Kik plans to expand the service to include detailed profiles, multimedia messaging, and a feature that they say will use an “incredibly powerful technology” they’ve developed to “wirelessly connect your smartphone to any PC or TV.” Not sure what that means just yet, but it sounds pretty cool.
Did you get Kik yet?
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