I understand, but every two weeks is a little overstated don't you think?
I still have ICQ. Everyone left me there already. I also have Jabber, no friends there.
Skype I had for a short time, when Mickeysoft migrated it from MickeySoft Network. And it did not play well on the Linux platform.
Now I have both, WA and TG. And I'm in the opportunity to have my most important friends using TG. Both WA and TG eat a lot of memory. I would be thrilled to shut up one of the two. At least during work hours. A native 3rd party client would settle the argument.