Mail.Ru gives some statistics on the use of the IM messenger "Agent" . According to the company, almost 2 million unique users access the program every day — they exchange about 30 million messages a day. The peak of attendance falls at 15 hours Moscow time on weekdays. The monthly audience of the service is 3.8 million users. Recently, the company recorded 500 thousand simultaneous connections to the server.
The share of the “Agent” in the Russian market of instant messengers Mail.Ru is estimated at 30%. According to the company’s CEO Dmitry Grishin, this service is one of the strategic for Mail.Ru, and it will be actively developed further.
“For us, the figure of 500 thousand simultaneous connections also means a breakthrough in terms of technology,” says Mail.Ru CTO Vladimir Gabrielyan. “I don’t know other Russian online services that can withstand such a load.” He noted that a large number of simultaneous connections is not a trivial task in terms of technology. For the Mail.Ru postal service, for example, the same indicator is a hundred times less.