Is the deal with MySpace already harvesting new Skype Users? Perhaps, because i noticed also an increase in the number of downloads of the Skype client! The download speed is twice as high as some weeks ago.
Below i published the updated graph of the evolution of users online since the beginning of Skype in August 2003 (my data samples).
Users online fluctuate during the day, week and months, but reach now sometimes 10 million users online, and never go below 4 million users online (see the two blue curves, representing “upper” and “lower” limits of users online over the last 4 years). Some reasons for the fluctuations are:- At night some people log off;
- During the weekend, less people are online;
- Holiday periods (summer, New Year, other public holidays) are also “bad” for the online number.
4 comments:
Make that 10.331.654 and its only Monday. Not sure if its the MySpace effect but Skype has gotten its mojo back from somewhere.
To be honest, i am not sure at all it is the MySpace effect, but ...
during months there was a stagnation, and now suddenly this strong rise, and only that one reason that seems to explain it ...
I am sure it isn't the new 3.6 beta release with better video: isn't a revolution!
It could be all the free publicity that Skype is getting. (Launching phone with 3, partnering with MySpace, causing EBAY to report Q3 loss, firing Zennstrom and looking for new CEO, launching new beta, etc etc... Could be a classic case of "any news is better than no news."
You could be right with your "free publicity" theory.
Today was only some 10.25 million, and tomorrow will be less i guess: quite some Catholic countries have a day off on November 1 and/or 2.
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