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  1. The-other-place reached the 100 million users milestone after only… five days I wanted to compare its growth with the growth of other well known tech products So as the data nerd that I am, I gathered some data and made a plot 1/5
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      It’s pretty clear that the-other-place’s growth is unprecedented for a tech product Really impressive adoption rate 2/
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        Some caveats with the data: unclear if all products use the same definition of what a "user" is. Numbers were usually shared to communicate something, the underlying methodology wasn’t specified. 3/
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          That being said, my goal was to communicate the overall magnitude of how fast the adoption of the-other-place is. I don’t think the imprecision in the data prevents to do so. 4/
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            I also tried to get data for some other products but couldn’t find any, for instance WhatsApp and Gmail 5/5
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