How many users does GitHub have right now? 15.82M and counting

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> Note: The total accounts would include the deactivated or deleted accounts as well. So, it may not truly represent the number of active Github users.

Understatement of the century.

Counting on user IDs is an especially bad way of calculating users. I just used BigQuery to check the number of unique users in all of 2014 and there are only 3 million unique accounts who actually did something.

I understand your point, and yes the active users for a particular period is going to be a lot less than the total number.

However, my goal here was to know about the total number of accounts existing on Github. I guess that the title could be changed to "How many accounts does the Github have right now?", that would do the justice.

Btw, I didn't know about BigQuery. It is pretty amazing and free. Thank you for sharing.

There's a free tier, but it's not free beyond that. Otherwise folks would be mining bitcoins using BigQuery UDFs :)

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