01 October 2010 | Author: M. Thomson SEO & Affiliate Consultant

Forget viral - PingChat instant messenger might just go volcanic

The beauty of social media is that it often reveals surges in demand; bigmouthmedia thinks it may have spotted a six chillies-demand for the mobile application PingChat. A quick survey of the social web landscape reveals Facebook and Twitter users have been increasingly sharing their PingChat ID for others to add and chat.

What is PingChat?

PingChat, by Waterloo-based start-up Enflick is a mobile instant messaging application available on the iPhone, iPod, iPad, Blackberry and Android - it's similar in concept to Skype, Yahoo! Messenger or BlackBerry Messenger.

Once you have signed up and created your PingChat ID, you can share it with users who can then instant message you on your smart phone.








PingChat isn't offering a particularly new service, as instant messaging has been around for years. However, it has noticed a significant gap in the market and, considering BlackBerry's Instant Messenger isn't well loved, has set its sights to capitalise on the rising opportunity.

Blackberry has a healthy market share, yet its instant messenger has been widely derided. Cue: PingChat steping up to the ring with enhanced features like text, photo, voice- and location-based messaging. Many Blackberry users have adopted PingChat like rats fleeing a sinking ship, singing its praises all the way.

As tens of thousands Blackberry users migrate their instant messaging application to PingChat, the ripple effect of users sharing their PingChat IDs has started to show in social platforms. It has an option to share with your Facebook friends, enabling its reach to extend, sign-up by sign-up. Humans - creatures of intuition - are quick to learn of the new application and jump on the bandwagon themselves.

Another feature to PingChat's suspected "about to go viral" status is that the application can be used across iPhone, iPod, iPad, Blackberry and Android platforms - basically all the biggest operating systems.

Where many others have failed, PingChat caters for "the big 3," meaning it turns away very few potential users - a lesson that should be well learned for all those who create one-dimensional mobile applications.

As the PingChat application spurs further adoption, and starts creeping to a re-tweet near you, get ready to embrace the status update of Ping me on PingChat! at ID: 1234567 - pingchat.com.

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