Meebo announced an additional round of partners who signed up to use Meebo Community IM for their own users, making Meebo the largest open IM network on the web. In combination with the eight launch partners announced in July, the network of partners signed up to use Meebo now has a total unduplicated global reach of 72.9 million and an unduplicated reach in the US of 26.2 million.

Meebo’s latest offering, Meebo Community IM, integrates open instant messaging into online communities, enabling live communication and real-time notifications between members of social media, entertainment, gaming, and blog networks. Users are also able to communicate with each other at meebo.com, resulting in an open and federated instant messaging network based on the collective social graphs of some of the Web’s largest community sites and instant messaging services. Meebo Community IM partners signed to date include Bleacher Report, DanceJam, Dhingana, Fanpop, Flixster, Global Grind, IBeatYou, myYearbook, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group’s AddictingGames, OrangeShark, Piczo, PerfSpot, SparkArt, Sugar Publishing, Tagged, UGAME.net, Yaari, Zinch, and Zorpia.

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