How many MXit users are there really?

Hmmm well I know I personally count for at least 2 of those supposed mxit users because it's installed but never used. My 14yr old brother counts for about 4 as he has had a phone stolen and has it installed on my parents phones etc.

Mxit integration with gmail and msn has been pretty terrible. My gf uses it to chat with me sometimes because it's cheaper than sms and im on both msn/gtalk all day but pretty much most of the time the "hello?" will get through and then nothing else...
 
rorz0r said:
Mxit integration with gmail and msn has been pretty terrible. My gf uses it to chat with me sometimes because it's cheaper than sms and im on both msn/gtalk all day but pretty much most of the time the "hello?" will get through and then nothing else...
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It's been almost completely dead lately. People who used Mxit to talk to me are on Bling now, works a little better. But you can't talk to mxit contacts from Bling, only other Bling users or IM's.
 
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Ekhaatvensters said:
They won't migrate imo, they already use both. No reason to drop mxit, the appeal is that it's mobile and not fixed to a computer.
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Facebook isnt fixed to a computer, in fact my missus is spending less time accessing facebook on her computer and more on her phone.
 
rorz0r said:
Mxit integration with gmail and msn has been pretty terrible. My gf uses it to chat with me sometimes because it's cheaper than sms and im on both msn/gtalk all day but pretty much most of the time the "hello?" will get through and then nothing else...
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It really is, don't know why they can't get it working at least with Gmail seeing as its jabber to jabber, pretty useless IMO.
 
ic said:
Yes, I read the article, I have read & followed the posts with interest, and was wondering why you hadn't posted anything yet - until this afternoon.

How many of those 9 million MXit logins are repeat logins, e.g. people that don't stay logged in continuously throughout a day and login several times per day, as well as connections dropping and requiring a subsequent login when reconnected?
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Hahahaha good point!!:D Poor Samsung users!:p
Last year when I had this crazy weird chick around, I used to delete Mxit every night and download it every time I needed to use it again, I must have downloaded the app atleast 50 times.
 
JK8 said:

Hahahaha good point!!:D Poor Samsung users!:p
Last year when I had this crazy weird chick around, I used to delete Mxit every night and download it every time I needed to use it again, I must have downloaded the app atleast 50 times.
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She not very trusting? :D
 
Well i know in my age group (18 years) there are alot of Mxit users and especially in the younger groups.

Ive personally find it a waste of time, sitting and chatting, only use it if i want to find info now, or organise something.

But i personally don't know anyone my age or any friendfs that don't use it.
 
JK8 said:

Hahahaha good point!!:D Poor Samsung users!:p
Last year when I had this crazy weird chick around, I used to delete Mxit every night and download it every time I needed to use it again, I must have downloaded the app atleast 50 times.
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most mxit problems are cellphone and network related and not specifically mxit errors. samsung for example, have issues with java apps in general. vodacom just plain sucks with mxit :D
 
mercurial said:
most mxit problems are cellphone and network related and not specifically mxit errors. samsung for example, have issues with java apps in general. vodacom just plain sucks with mxit :D
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I think you mean 3G sucks on mxit. I sleep with mxit on and wake up to all sorts of funny messages!:p
 
it's just a great way to keep in touch with friends and family without needing spend so much money on smsing. but for younger generations...they have alternative uses for it. i know many people in their 30's, married, who use mxit.
 
ic said:
How many of those 9 million MXit logins are repeat logins, e.g. people that don't stay logged in continuously throughout a day and login several times per day, as well as connections dropping and requiring a subsequent login when reconnected?
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That is exactly the point I was trying to get through in the other thread. If they can show 9 million logins for only a few hundred thousand current users the majority of users don't keep an open connection all day long.
Syndyre said:
It really is, don't know why they can't get it working at least with Gmail seeing as its jabber to jabber, pretty useless IMO.
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MXit is proprietary.
 
Prometheus said:
That is exactly the point I was trying to get through in the other thread. If they can show 9 million logins for only a few hundred thousand current users the majority of users don't keep an open connection all day long.

It depends how long they stay disconnected for though, it could be a few minutes at most.


MXit is proprietary.
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Its a proprietary implementation of jabber but its essentially still jabber at its core, they just modified the protocol to reduce overhead AFAIK.
 
Syndyre said:
Its a proprietary implementation of jabber but its essentially still jabber at its core, they just modified the protocol to reduce overhead AFAIK.
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Based on the MXit forum from people trying to make pc MXit apps, it's sort of like a single character machine trying to communicate with machines that only support wide characters. While it can do the necessary translation it does not have the correct native support to interface with other jabber clients so the developers probably get it wrong most of the time.
 
Prometheus said:
Based on the MXit forum from people trying to make pc MXit apps, it's sort of like a single character machine trying to communicate with machines that only support wide characters. While it can do the necessary translation it does not have the correct native support to interface with other jabber clients so the developers probably get it wrong most of the time.
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Maybe so but I think on the server side i.e. server to server communications its standard jabber otherwise you wouldn't be able to invite Mxit users from a Google Talk account.
 
It is a modified version of Jabber where certain tokens have been replaced with smaller ones that reduce data transfer to make it cheaper and increase overhead.

My problem with them is that they don't seem to be putting much into sorting out some of their issues. I personally wouldn't mind if the client polled the server regularly so that when I go offline by exiting the program it shows immediately. The worst part about mxit is that when your client gets out of sync with the servers and suddenly your messages don't go through properly resulting in a communication breakdown with the person you are trying to communicate with.:mad:
 
jetpacman said:
It is a modified version of Jabber where certain tokens have been replaced with smaller ones that reduce data transfer to make it cheaper and increase overhead.

My problem with them is that they don't seem to be putting much into sorting out some of their issues. I personally wouldn't mind if the client polled the server regularly so that when I go offline by exiting the program it shows immediately. The worst part about mxit is that when your client gets out of sync with the servers and suddenly your messages don't go through properly resulting in a communication breakdown with the person you are trying to communicate with.:mad:
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Yeah, they seem to have a "take it or leave it" sort of attitude, probably a result of facing no serious competion IMO. We need a serious competitor to provide alternatives.
 
Prometheus said:
Based on the MXit forum from people trying to make pc MXit apps, it's sort of like a single character machine trying to communicate with machines that only support wide characters. While it can do the necessary translation it does not have the correct native support to interface with other jabber clients so the developers probably get it wrong most of the time.
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It sounds like you're referring to single-byte and multi-byte|wide characters [e.g. Unicode], but a link to the relevant MXit forum thread would be more enlightening...
 
ic said:
It sounds like you're referring to single-byte and multi-byte|wide characters [e.g. Unicode], but a link to the relevant MXit forum thread would be more enlightening...
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I think it was more an analogy than anything else. AFAIK they use a modified version of ejabberd, the modification essentially being to adjust the XMPP protocol so that it uses less data, making it cheaper for mobile users. Don't have a link though.
 
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