Videoconferencing app Zoom has experienced a surge in popularity amid the coronavirus pandemic, and the company itself quantified that surge as rising from 10 million to 300 million daily active users from December 2019 to April 2020.
These numbers were quoted by numerous media outlets (Mashable included), but, as noticed by The Verge, the company has since changed the wording in the blog post from “daily users” to “daily meeting participants.”
“We are humbled and proud to help over 300 million daily meeting participants stay connected during this pandemic. In a blog post on April 22, we unintentionally referred to these participants as “users” and “people.” When we realized this error, we adjusted the wording to “participants.” This was a genuine oversight on our part,” the company told the outlet in a statement. Read more…
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