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by tomjen3 1697 days ago
Of course one is biased in favour of ones own product, but the network effects of AIM were essentially completely overtaken by facebook messenger, thanks in part to a technological change (phones) and delivering a product that didn't require both parties to be online at the same time.

Digg died and the population moved to reddit. MySpace is deader than most zombies.