Skype's Journey to Connect 70 Million People at Once

Skype hit two major milestones this week: It connected 70 million people through its Internet calling service at once and celebrated its 10th anniversary.
This chart, created by Statista, shows the maximum users concurrently connected on Skype during each of the platform's 10 years.

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In 2004, Skype's first year, only 1 million users used the platform at once. The most significant jumps occurred during the last two years. In 2011, 30 million people made Skype calls at the same time, which is less than half the number concurrently connected earlier this week.
Statist pulled the data in this chart from Skype's real-time user figures and the Skype Numerology blog.