DISQUS

@South77 - I guess the best people to ask are our users, they love the service and its used for far more than just IM. If you were now sitting elsewhere in the world where your only choice of connection to the internet was through a mobile phone, and that phone was the only way you have ever connected to the internet, then you would discover Trutap and possibly not have an IM a/c and therefore use the service to discover new friends, chat to your current friends, group message them and send photos. If you are lucky enough to use a PC once a week through an internet cafe then sure, you may have IM, now you can do this from your mobile phone everyday instead of once a week and whats more, if you have a blog, you can keep in contact with your mates through a whole wealth of text and picture blogging sites. I haven't even got to the content choice... free premiership news daily, horoscopes, jokes etc... we're so much more than IM, check it out http://trutap.com - Cheers!

@HeavyLight - you are right, when we first launched we expected to have GTalk sooner and have never released a launch date for it. However after reviewing our options for this connectivity, we decided to change our infrastructure to give us a lot more than GTalk (which is still small, but growing in emerging markets which are our focus). As a result we've spent time bringing our existing user base (who use the worlds largest IM transports) the content they desire and then over the next few weeks you will be seeing a lot more than just Gtalk, for real!! Why Hornet? Well that has to be to do with the greatest football team in the world ;-)

Can't believe I have only managed to get to this... fantastic coverage mate, especially on 17 ;-) - nice work!!!