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That's only http traffic to the website, not people connecting via the app or via phone call. Most people use only the app or a phone call, for example to join

by cs702 7y ago

That's only http traffic to the website, not people connecting via the app or via phone call. Most people use only the app or a phone call, for example to join a conference call hosted by someone else. Beyond business people on company-hosted calls, think students taking remote classes, grandmas connecting with their whole families, friends joining virtual happy hours, people playing social games, and so on. Worldwide, I wouldn't be shocked to find out that a couple billion people have recently used Zoom. Zoom has handled this ludicrous growth impressively well. -- EDIT: Changed "suspect" to "wouldn't be shocked to find out," which more accurately reflects what I meant to write.

JCharante 7y ago
Are you proposing that the majority of users had their IT department remotely install the zoom application? I'd imagine there's a significant amount of people who downloaded the application from their website. Additionally calendar invites often have a link to the zoom site, which then launches the app. So someone who is connecting via the app would still hit the website.
- cs702 7y ago
  > I'd imagine there's a significant amount of people who downloaded the application from their website. Not on iOS or Android devices (phones, tablets, Chromebooks, etc).
jlgaddis 7y ago
> That's only http traffic to the website ... I suspect a good portion of that 700MM was simply people searching for Zoom to find out what is was, after hearing about it from others or in the news. > Worldwide, I suspect around a couple billion people have recently used Zoom. I recall seeing the number 200MM mentioned and I think that came from Zoom themselves (a blog post or something, maybe?) but don't hold me to that.
- cs702 7y ago
  Is 200M the number of accounts or the number of people that have used the service, say over the past month? The latter is likely an order of magnitude greater than the former.
- igammarays 7y ago
  200M daily active users according to their blog post https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/ https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-u...
- dx034 7y ago
  Until two weeks ago I was the only one in my family who had used Zoom. By now, each member of my family has used it independentely for different purposes. From casual meet-ups with friends/family over sports classes to seminars and trainings, Zoom really started gaining traction outside of large businesses.

by cs702 7y ago

JCharante 7y ago

Are you proposing that the majority of users had their IT department remotely install the zoom application? I'd imagine there's a significant amount of people who downloaded the application from their website. Additionally calendar invites often have a link to the zoom site, which then launches the app. So someone who is connecting via the app would still hit the website.

cs702 7y ago
> I'd imagine there's a significant amount of people who downloaded the application from their website. Not on iOS or Android devices (phones, tablets, Chromebooks, etc).

jlgaddis 7y ago

> That's only http traffic to the website ... I suspect a good portion of that 700MM was simply people searching for Zoom to find out what is was, after hearing about it from others or in the news. > Worldwide, I suspect around a couple billion people have recently used Zoom. I recall seeing the number 200MM mentioned and I think that came from Zoom themselves (a blog post or something, maybe?) but don't hold me to that.

cs702 7y ago
Is 200M the number of accounts or the number of people that have used the service, say over the past month? The latter is likely an order of magnitude greater than the former.
igammarays 7y ago
200M daily active users according to their blog post https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/ https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-u...
dx034 7y ago
Until two weeks ago I was the only one in my family who had used Zoom. By now, each member of my family has used it independentely for different purposes. From casual meet-ups with friends/family over sports classes to seminars and trainings, Zoom really started gaining traction outside of large businesses.