AIM Fight is a program designed to compare the popularity of two AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) screen names. AIM Fight is not an official AOL product.
To "fight," two screen names are entered into the Web page and then each screen name is run through an algorithm that runs through the buddy lists of everybody signed on at that particular moment. The algorithm returns a score that represents the sum of the number of people who have those screen names listed as a buddy out to the third degree. As explained on the AIM Fight Web page, the score cannot increase by adding people to that user's buddy list, but rather having other people add the user to their buddy list. Depending on how well-connected these people are, the increase in the score can vary.
Although the score represents a numerical sum of the people who have that screen name listed as a buddy and are currently signed on, the help page later states that the actual score is relative to how many people are connected to AIM. Although the term rank usually assumes that each person has a unique position, multiple users can share the same AIM Fight rank, including rank 1.
Read more about AIM Fight: Web API
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