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Socialcam adds millions of users, scales, and pushes new version all in one week

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43 pointsmwseibel12 comments

Is this users as in facebook installs, or users as in ios/android app installs. Big difference, as socialcam makes you authorize their facebook app to watch videos posted by other socialcam users via FB. Having those users add the socialcam app does not equal a app download, nor a active user in my opinion. Their only interaction was watching a video. Its the same thing as authorizing yahoo to read a story a friend posted. You can call that a "user" but you are just lieing to yourself. Its a glorified visit.

Still, its crazy impressive either way- But it does not compare to instagram style numbers if they are counting that. Instagram did their reported numbers in app downloads, not facebook auths.

Do you count videos served or videos uploaded as the primary metric for YouTube? It's the latter that drives revenue after all.

Have to agree that this stat smells a liiiitttttle fishy

https://twitter.com/#!/search/socialcam -- you'd expect more twitter action for a social thingie with 4MM new users in a weekend

If you want evidence for how much adoption it has, download it and see how many followers you get.

More evidence: it's the #2 free app on the app store.

#2 on app store is definitely impressive. Why only 25 ratings I wonder..

App is very nice, fast, and functional

Felt like a bit of a google+ ghost town vibe though. On the follow friends screen it looked like a ton of my friends were on socialcam but on the feed it's just the same 2 people posting, and not that frequently.

There are the celebs on there though..

All in all seems like they're doing pretty well and also exaggerating usership in the way the poster above describes

Quick shoutout to the folks at JTV, Twitch, Exec, YC, our investors, AWS, and many many helpful friends - without all of your support this wouldn't have been possible. Also quick thanks to Mike Krieger from Instagram - his scaling presentation convinced us that a couple smart dudes and AWS can scale anything. Now, back to work!

congrats Michael, doing an awesome job!

Congratz Michael, yeah Instagram presentation was nice :)

Congrats to Michael and the hard working folks at Socialcam, who fully deserve their success. I've been using it since V1 and it continues to be one of my most used apps.

Also kudos to them for not over-associating their company as the Instagram for video, which must have been tempting recently. While that is one description, Socialcam seems to have its own original vision and is clearly chasing it with gusto.

I knew they'd just turned the corner when a friend Redwood City, my old weightlifting coach and my brother in law in New York all watched the same video (posted to FB).

So impressive. You guys execute like a freight train. Keep it up.

So ... How many billions is it worth?

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