Meebo now supports MySpace and Facebook

Meebo, the site where you can login to almost all popular IM systems has been steadily growing in traffic since it launched untill recently. Their traffic curve has flattened out a bit to about 7 million unique visitors a month. But I think that is all about to change. Meebo has now introduced support for the MySpace and Facebook instant messenger systems.

Meebo now has support for the following IM’s:

• MSN
• Yahoo
• AIM
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Yahoo!
• GTalk
• ICQ
• Jabber

This is an amazing portfolio of sites they now support and I can see why the site is so popular. You can also see why MySpace where pushing for Meebo to integrate their service. On the Meebo Blog they said:

Many people outside of Meebo helped make this happen. First off, thanks to the folks at MySpace who encouraged us and helped us to test and gave us their support. A particular shout out to Ali, Dawn and Tom.

The Facebook Integration does seem to be done in a different way, they have a been helping contribute to an open source project that integrated with Facebook chat. I would never expect Facebook to be proactive in asking Meebo to integrate their service.

The strange bit with the Facebook integration, when you sign in you are not using the new Facebook Connect platform. For security purposes I would prefer to be using their new system. I am happier with the MySpace integration as they were helping with the solution.

What do you think? Is this as big a deal as I believe? Post your thoughts below.

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