Reaching the 100 million users on a monthly basis is indeed a milestone for Bit Torrent. The company claims to have 20 million users daily and over 400,000 daily client downloads. Depending upon who you are the Bit Torrent stats will either make you happy or fearsome. Here are some of the important facts about the recent stats of Bit Torrent that you must know.
1. The 100 million user count actually misses a couple of millions:
Apart from the active users there are millions of countless night unofficial clients actively using Bit Torrent. May be you are one of them too but unfortunately these users don’t get counted. But the surprising thing is that Bit Torrent is absolutely comfortable in revealing the number of these users and thereby reflecting the services of Bit Torrent primarily as the piracy tool.
2. Music hardly makes its way to even top 50 of the search engine list
Though Bit Torrent claims to have millions of customers downloading music contents on a regular basis, the sad part is that the musical contents barely makes to the top 50 list of the most searched and downloaded items. In 2010 Eminem, one of the biggest musical artists couldn’t go beyond the ranking of 47.
According to the reports of Kickass Torrents, some of the most popular search items on Bit Torrent in the year 2010 were primarily the porn contents and the blockbuster films like Inception, Avatar, Iron Man 2, Clash of the Titans, XXX and so on. The musical files were hardly on the top search lists.
3. Bit Torrent working hard to become a legitimate service provider
Because of the easy accessibility of the piracy contents Bit Torrent is often regarded as the piracy tool. But the company is working hard and making efforts to eliminate this marred image with the commencement of legitimate services. The company has started with the legitimate file sharing services especially with the individual artist contents.
4. The company makes most of its revenue from the toolbars
Bit Torrent was one such company that pioneered in developing one of the most innovative web technologies but the unfortunate part is that it depends on the toolbars to pay salaries to its employees.
5. Putting Bit Torrent stats into context:
The company claims to have more active users than Netflix and Hulu combined. However, it features half the customers in U.S.A when compared with the users of YouTube and iTunes. But Bit Torrent has more or less the same amount if users like that of FaceBook and Yahoo.