A billion requests a month with Windows Live Presence API

We launched the Windows Live Presence API and Windows Live Messenger IM Control back in November 2007. 

Since then, a growing number of sites like Daum in Korea, and applications like the Windows Live Messenger Facebook application have steadily increased the usage of the API and the control.  We’re happy to report that during the month of August, we received over a BILLION presence requests from all those applications!  That’s over 300 per second on average.  The fact that we hit a milestone like this is amazing when you consider that in the Messenger world, August is typically a slow month, with people on holidays and school vacations.

Thanks to everybody who is using the Messenger APIs!  Please let us know how we can improve our offerings so we can better meet your needs.  And we look forward to serving billions and billions more in the future!

Keiji Kanazawa
Program Manager
Windows Live Contacts and Messenger Platform

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  September 04, 2008
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• Anonymous
  September 04, 2008
  Congratulations, Keiji Pretty amazing stat!

• Anonymous
  January 22, 2009
  It has been just over a year since we announced the release of the IM Control and Presence API . I wanted

• Anonymous
  September 10, 2009
  It would make things simpler if a website could request a unique API key like google offer for all their APIs So that requests like this could be made http://messenger.services.live.com/users/unique-key-for-website/username@hotmail.com/presenceimage/ This alleviates the need to obtain the unique user id instead of using the e-mail address. Thanks in Advance, Simon Sparks sparks2k2 (at) hotmail (dot) com