2024-05-08 03:23:03
New Delhi: The first commercial flight in the world flew in 1914 but it took a long time of 68 years for the number of aircraft users to reach 50 million. Similarly, it took 62 years for car users to reach five crore. It took 50 years for the telephone to be used in every home to reach this stage. Similarly, it took a long time of 28 years for the number of credit card users to reach five crore. It took 22 years for television to reach this figure. Computers achieved this milestone in 14 years, Internet in seven and PayPal in five years. YouTube also took four years to reach Rs 5 crore. The world’s largest social media company Facebook achieved this position in three years. The number of social media platform X i.e. Twitter had reached five crore in two years. Even a popular app like WeChat took a year to reach this milestone. But there is one product which achieved this milestone in just 19 days. Canadian pornography video sharing website Pornhub has achieved the record of gaining 50 million users in just 19 days. According to Wikipedia, Pornhub was launched on May 25, 2007 by web developer Matt Keezer. In March 2010, this company was bought by Fabian Thylmann. In 2013, he sold his stake in this company to Feras Antoon and David Tassillo. According to data till February, it is the 13th most popular and second most visited adult website in the world.
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Talking about new age popular apps, Threads took only five days to reach the milestone of 100 million users. When Elon Musk bought Twitter i.e. X, Mark Zuckerberg came up with Threads to compete with him. It took two months for Microsoft-invested ChatGPIT to garner 100 million users. TikTok had reached this figure in nine months whereas WeChat was able to reach this mark in one year and two months. It took two years and six months for Instagram to reach this figure, three years for MySpace, three years and six months for WhatsApp, three years and eight months for Snapchat, four years and one month for YouTube and four years and six months for Facebook.