<p>Skype has revealed today that its users now spend two billion minutes each day communicating with one another on its cross-platform calling and messaging service.</p><p>That's a colossal figure, which has been no doubt been bolstered by Microsoft's impending closure of Windows Live Messenger, and the continued development of its various mobile and desktop apps.</p><p>Two billion minutes sounds like an awful lot of video calls, but it's important to remember that this figure represents all forms of communication over Skype. As with other Voice over IP (VoIP) such as Viber and Facebook Messenger, that means text messages, video voicemail and audio calls are also included.</p><p>Nevertheless, the milestone shows that Skype is still very much a household name when it comes to video calls. In fact, in recent years the service has become almost synonymous with the act of calling someone, so that users might say "I'll Skype you at 7pm", similar to 'Googling' a search query on the Internet.</p><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/03/skype-now-handles-2-billion-minutes-of-connections-each-day/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://hothardware.com/News/Skype-Usages-Reaches-Record-2-Billion-Minutes-Per-Day/">Skype Usages Reaches Record 2 Billion Minutes Per Day</a> (Hot Hardware)</p><p><a href="http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-skype-users-are-spending-more-two-billion-minutes-day">Microsoft: Skype users are spending more than two billion minutes a day</a> (WinBeta)</p><p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/03/skype-users-hit-milestone-2-billion-minutes-per-day/">Skype users hit milestone 2 billion minutes per day</a> (VentureBeat)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dpkN3DPf5mde_4MzQnw09lqPsza_M&ned=us">27 additional articles.</a></p>