16 million simultaneous online

By Jean Mercier, Skype Numerologist, of Belgium.

The fastest million ever.

It is the second time in 3 months that I have to use the same blog post title. Indeed, it took only 21 days or three weeks to add another million.

I made a very wrong prediction in September last year and believe it or not, I am very happy that I was wrong!

This is the first time ever that Skype crosses four times a million milestone in a Northern hemisphere “fall-winter-spring” period, or "School Year"! And, this ten months period is only half way, therefore we could see at least one more million, or perhaps even two! Exciting!

16,159,211 is today's reported peak.

Editor: See also: Jason Harris crediting this to London's snow storm and people working from home. Thanks to Julien Decot, Chaim Haas, and Neil Lindsey for progress reports from San Francisco, New York, and Vancouver.

 

See Skype Journal's alert last Monday (27 January 2009) as we approached 16 million.

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