Messaging service eBuddy has clocked up 250m user accounts. eBuddy users currently spend more than 10bn minutes per month engaged with the app – an average of 40 minutes per user, per month, or 476 minutes per user per month, based on the number of active users per month – 21m.
More than two thirds of eBuddy users connect via mobile devices. The app is the number one messaging app in the Nokia Ovi store, and is in the top 20 iPhone social networking apps in 41 countries. 
According to a recent Portio Research report, there were 311.2m mobile Instant Messaging (IM) users in 2010, and that number is expected to grow to 1.6 trillion by 2015. Additionally, worldwide mobile IM revenue stood at $6.8bn (£4.4bn) in 2010, representing year-on-year growth of 53 per cent. Annual mobile IM revenue is forecast to reach $31bn by the end of 2015.
