Zoom doesn’t actually have 300 million daily users

Zoom stems from an announcement announced last week that the video conferencing app was launched 300 million users a day. Instead the company say now It has “300 million daily meeting attendees,” another metric that counts people for each zoom meeting they attend in a day.

The change was previously discovered by The Verge. After the release reached the company, Zoom added an edit note to his blog post on Wednesday, describing the error as an oversight.

“We are humble and proud to help over 300 million daily meeting attendees stay connected during this pandemic,” said a Zoom spokesman in an emailed statement on Thursday. “In a blog post on April 22, we accidentally referred to these participants as ‘users’ and ‘people’. When we noticed this error, we changed the wording to” participants “. This was a real oversight on our part.”

Zoom did not respond to a request for details on the number of daily active users. This more common metric counts individual app users once a day, regardless of how many zoom meetings they attend.

With the corona virus pandemic having forced millions of people to stay at home in the past two months, Zoom has become the preferred video meeting for many. Daily meeting attendees on the platform increased from 10 million in December to 200 million in March and now 300 million in April. With this popularity, Zooms security issues have also attracted more attention – along with one Handful of lawsuits.

Incorrect daily user numbers stem from CEO Eric Yuan’s update to Zoom’s 90-day security plan. Last month, Yuan said the company would no longer add new features to Zoom so that it could use its resources to troubleshoot issues such as zoom bombing when uninvited attendees attended your meeting.

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