🆚 IRC vs. XMPP
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 IRC is three times more popular than XMPP.
- 🌎 IRC is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
- 🌍 XMPP is more popular in Russia and Isle of Man.
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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging supported by many clients such as mIRC, XChat, ChatZilla and others.
XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, and collaboration.
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- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Instant Messaging category.
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