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Why did someone just downvote everyone who made a request?

• axod 17y ago
  It's not really making for an interesting conversation. (I didn't downmod). BTW I do think the title is a little misleading. "Picks up 100,000 new riders" makes you imagine they have got traction and 100k new users. The actual article states that they are opening it up to a further 100k users. Maybe they'll get 100k takers, but I don't think it's quite the same thing as already having the users. Clever PR though ;)
  • sjs 17y ago
    There are ~420 million people living in Canada (33), USA (304), UK (61), and Australia (21) according to Google's public data. If 1/40th of a percent of those are interested in Google Wave that's 100,000 people. Now think about the rest of the people around the globe that also speak English and would be interested. If they don't have 100,000 people lined up I would be extremely surprised. edit: Oh yes, and each of those 100,000 gets 8 invites. They should have a bare minimum of 100,000 active users and possibly closer to the half million mark. All speculation but it seems pretty reasonable to me.
• ashleyw 17y ago
  Likely so their request got higher on the list. :)