[jdev] is everybody using XMPP without knowing it?

Stefan de Konink stefan at konink.de
Sun Dec 30 22:14:38 UTC 2012


On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, Winfried Tilanus wrote:

> I am preparing a talk on XMPP for the Dutch python users group. I expect
> that many of the people present in the meeting there is using XMPP
> without knowing it. For example many of them might me using google talk,
> without realizing they are using XMPP.

I guess this is also the best example of XMPP failing (hard). Numerous 
complaints from any mobile platform that there messages are not being 
delivered (and thus lacking an acknowledgement) opposed to WhatsApp & 
Skype.


> Do you know of other examples of widely used applications that are
> silently using XMPP?

Facebook, Twitter...


Stefan


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