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Five Million Users And Nearly Five Billion Stumbles Later

techcrunch.com — Sometime today, StumbleUpon will register its five millionth user. (At the time of this writing, it is at 4,994,826 registered users). That number is kind of meaningless because it counts anyone who has ever registered for the Website-rating and discovery service, and who may no longer use it. StumbleUpon, which is part of eBay, does not disclose h

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  • RandomEyes, on 04/23/2008, -3/+43"Acquired: May 1, 2007 by eBay for $75M in Cash"
    wow
  • ace429k, on 04/23/2008, -2/+39i use stumble when im drunk. the possibilities are endless!
  • inactive, on 04/23/2008, -1/+18They don't literally mean cash, haha. They paid it all at once (with money, not shares etc) probably electronically.
  • ajb2015, on 04/23/2008, -1/+17you live a crazy life
  • evensong, on 04/23/2008, -4/+18StumbleUpon is useful if you're bored and happen to be online. But I find that much of the content is junk and not worth my time. At least that has been my experience with the category, Pornography.
  • DrGamez, on 04/23/2008, -1/+14http://digg.com/users/farkis/history
    Oh man this guy is golden.
  • Vintagetin, on 04/23/2008, -2/+15StumbleUpon is an interesting application -- and on the threshold of 5M registered users, it was a bargain at $75M.
  • IronPwnage, on 04/23/2008, -4/+145M GET!
  • dullnation, on 04/23/2008, -1/+9Why would he even care? StumbleUpon is a site with a totally different concept/purpose...
  • xKorrix, on 04/23/2008, -5/+11Stumble gave me a new reason to browse the internet.
  • inactive, on 04/23/2008, -0/+6hahahahahahahahahahaha
  • kahnartizt07, on 04/23/2008, -2/+8$75M in CASH? Its not an illegal arms trade, its a corporate buyout. Do it electronically. That's a waste of time and a couple of briefcases.
  • alefox, on 04/23/2008, -0/+5golden how???
  • chrisbarnes, on 04/24/2008, -0/+5Yeah because there were way less users to post interesting sites, right?
  • louiebaur, on 04/23/2008, -2/+7You are right that is a nifty little graph
  • JordanTW90, on 04/24/2008, -0/+4$15 per user seems like a lot. Thats for all users, not just active users.
  • Loopholes, on 04/23/2008, -1/+5Blasphamy!
  • funkytaco, on 04/24/2008, -0/+4I don't value the opinion of anyone with three x's or core in their usernames.
  • rdoger6424, on 04/24/2008, -0/+3change your name to xxxfunkytacocorexxx now
  • demodawid, on 04/23/2008, -1/+4MODGET
  • Surefly, on 04/23/2008, -1/+4thumbs down for naming yourself 'thief' and not 'pirate'.
  • galador, on 04/24/2008, -0/+3Well, then, you sir are missing out on a great service. It surprised me (and disgruntled me a bit) when I learned that they were being acquired by eBay, but that doesn't mean it's not a good service anymore.
  • kurupttek, on 04/23/2008, -2/+4HAHA loser that's what you get for using aol
  • drgmdp, on 04/23/2008, -1/+3porn category is pretty lame, true. it's not the main point anyway.
  • picpak, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2DING! DING!
    The title said "stumbles". There goes the "bash Windows" alarm.
  • iofthestorm, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2I seriously hope he's trolling, because I can't believe anyone would make posts like that in earnest.
  • JointheArmy, on 04/23/2008, -2/+4"Sometime today, StumbleUpon will register its five millionth user. At the time of this writing, it is at 4,994,826 registered users."

    This led me to believe there was some sort of prize for being the five millionth user. Nothing but a cheap parlor trick to con you into registering it seems. ***** you Stumble.
  • bradcrc, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2as of 7:30pm central, I am user 5,468,000 the count on their page is stuck at less than 4 mill though.
  • Chasuk, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2So, you make a stupid inference, and then blame Stumble? Whew, what a brainiac!
  • MrViklund, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1StumbleUpon. Hum. Cool but I don't see the real use. Just another site to burn time on...
  • kashem, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Stumble is kind of neat to find pseudo random pages that would otherwise be unknown to you, but I stopped using it because:

    1- Began seeing too many repeats despite changing settings
    2- Most of the sites tend to be crap (although a few can be gold)
    3- Idiot douche bags that think linking to a malicious image file is funny
  • snurfle, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Windows doesn't use bash...
  • putergirl, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Think about it, once you stumble a few times, you eventually walk better. Too many restrictions to stumble, they may have the # but what is the activity?
  • NanoStuff, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1"does not disclose how many active users it has."

    Translation: Not a whole damn much.
  • ImOscar, on 04/24/2008, -3/+4I now avoid StumbleUpon because it's owned by ebay, and I hate ebay.
  • JointheArmy, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2*this post does not include porn.
  • craiginct, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Do they count my 5 accounts as one or five?
  • schmeebis, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Correction: You are User ID #5468000, not user number 5,468,000. ;-)
  • maximumsteve1, on 04/23/2008, -2/+3tru.dat slashdot ftw
  • joe57spike, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Why do you have five accounts?
  • drnoh, on 04/24/2008, -0/+0I'm not sure I like stumble, but I have burned countless hours of my life using it.
  • craiginct, on 04/24/2008, -0/+0One for each of my personalities -
    that actually like stumbleyoupon
  • ShempRider, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1I've never been to the site, much less have an account, but why didn't they just call it "Stumble" to begin with? That's what some people here have called it.
    Anyway, Stumbleupon v. Digg looks like a graveyard in the making.
  • stabbingkittens, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1No, but I'll bury you. Albeit 8 hours later, so noone gives a *****.
    "HEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOO LLLOOOOOOOOO LOOOOO LOOOOO!
    IS ANYONE HERE ERE ERE ERE ERE?"
    I guess I just stumbledupon this article too late! AHAHAHAHArrr!
    I'm using CAPS AND NOONE CAN STOP ME! HOW ABOUT SOME MEMS?!
    I SEE WHAT I DID THERE!!! Buy my spam, McCain is a bloody wanker, ***** microsoft, oh you're a chick lets *****, w00t, FIRST!, ahhh ***** it this is boring. I'm picturing myself in an empty train station drunk at 3AM on a Tuesday.
  • WalkAroundMe, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1If yer from Tex-ass I guess you must swear. Stumble is a marvelous resource -- no comments -- jes' (for you JTA) keep clicking and some very interesting ideas come your way.
  • pilobilus, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1Just a little secret for all you Stumblers: The key to a high volume of "discoveries" is to use http://digg.com/spy to spot stories worth tagging with an SU thumbs up. Together we can seriously influence the content of the SU index. Come on over and put your thumb on the scale, heh heh heh...
  • robthom, on 04/24/2008, -2/+2Buried for being part of ebay.
  • errabbaa, on 04/26/2008, -0/+0Good , really cool !! i used it !!!
  • inactive, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1Man..it's amazing to see how sites such as seomoz, huffingtonpost, cnn and others have hijacked digg. Unless you've got a blog with craploads of visitors, you'll never get on the home page of digg like in the good ol' days.
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