Technology
Zoom has more than 300 million users now, with just 10 million at 2019’s end
At this point, you’re probably sick of reading articles about the video teleconferencing service that mentions how explosive its growth has been during the coronavirus pandemic.
These latest numbers, however, make it clear as day why that’s the case.
Zoom that the platform now has more than 300 million daily active meeting participants.
At the end of last month, Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan that the company had hit 200 million daily active meeting participants. That means the company has added more than 100 million users in roughly three weeks’ time.
Making this number even more astounding, Zoom previously reported that it had a total of 10 million users at the end of December 2019.
This incredible stat was shared during a company webinar with Zoom CEO Yuan and later detailed on the company’s website.
At the end of last month, Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan announced that the company had hit 200 million daily active meeting participants.
“More than 300 million people around the world are using Zoom during this challenging time,” read a post on the Zoom blog, thanking its users, on April 22. This number includes both free and paid users.
This whopping 300 million number was shared as almost an afterthought in the update on the company’s website. The post mainly focused on the major that Zoom had just rolled out in response to the criticism it was receiving from security experts.
The that plagued Zoom actually makes its exponential growth even more astonishing, as many and banned its employees from using the service.
, , , of personal — all these security issues that have plagued the platform do not appear to have had an effect on Zoom becoming people’s video chat service of choice during the coronavirus pandemic.
It will be interesting to see what the next few weeks hold for the video conferencing company, as many stay-at-home orders continue into another month.
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