Intresting analogy on the slow takeup of Facebook voice apps
Stuart give us some amazing data on the failure of voice apps on Facebook.
The full list is below, what’s interesting about the figures is if you look at the mentions over the past month on blogs below. The percentages are very similar
Jaxtr- 1582
GrandCentral 1880
Rebtel 290
Jangl 5482
YackPack 86
SightSpeed Video Chat 215
Talkster 1155
Iotum (free conference calling) 124
Getabuz 30
Snapvine 361
Skype 212,541 (this one is a bit out of sync obviously)
Babytel 19
Yeigo 362
Tringome 108
Facebook figures for voice apps
Jaxtr
MyPhone
1,110 daily active users
2% of total
Total users – 55,300
GrandCentral
grandcentral
13 daily active users (4%)
Total Users – 325
Rebtel
letstalk
224 daily active users (6%)
Total Users – 3733
Jangl
phonebook
1,654 daily active users (2%)
Total Users – 82,700
Yackpack
27 daily, 0%
SightSpeed Video Chat
0 active users
Total Users - 0
Talkster
75 daily active users
31% of total
Total Users - 242
Iotum
FREE Conference Calls
245 daily active users
4% of total,
Total Users – 6125
Getabuz
Getabuz voice message
Users:964 daily active users
4% of total
Total Users – 24,100
Snapvine
1,090 daily active users
1% of total
Total Users – 109,000
Skype
Skype me
1,214 daily active users
2% of total
Total Users – 60,700
Babytel
55 daily active users
6% of total
Total Users – 916
Yeigo
yeigo me
18 daily active users
15% of total
Total Users – 120
TringMe
2 daily active users
2% of total
Total Users – 100
Is it really that surprising? The dynamics of Facebook simply aren’t about voice and in fact not about any kind of real-time communication. It would be much more intuitive to use IM within Facebook, but that hasn’t taken off at all either. Facebook is mostly about asynchronous interactions, and its power is to give you quickly consumable information about all of your contacts, not one-on-one, real-time conversations.
It’s interesting, too, that most of the voice apps that have a little bit of traction are to some degree about anonomyzing your phone number and voicemail. Again, asynchronous communication, and often a way of dealing with people you don’t really want to talk to.
I work in voice and can’t think of a single time I’ve ever wanted to initiate a voice conversation with someone through Facebook.
Pat…that’s not a real Grand Central AP!! It was created by a guy and put out on the Grand Central group page for about a half hour. I’m sure Google’s working on a real Grand Central ap, but to include this one in your list is a joke.
Dave
I only took the list from elsewhere.
whether its made by someone else or not the point was that the take-up on voice apps on Facebook is pretty poor.