No. It DC's you after you close the app, or if your phone goes into standby. So you will not get any messages on your phone unless you have the app open, and it does not go into standby (meaning you're touching your screen once every 60~ seconds)
The AIM app sucks really bad, however it's supposed to have push support when the push toolkit comes through, so it's really not AOL's fault.
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