16 milestones of a million, billion or more ...
... and these are just from the past month
By Paul McNamara on Mon, 08/08/11 - 8:28am.Quantitative milestones have been a marketing staple since long before McDonald's began counting burgers. So when I saw recently that Huffington Post was boasting of having hosted its 100 millionth comment, I did a little searching to see how many of these pronouncements I could find ... over just the past month. Here's a slideshow featuring the more notable ones with any kind of tech connection. They're listed in ascending volume order and range from a mere million on up to 15 billion.
OK, I'll give away a couple of them here: No. 1 is Garry's Mod notching its millionth sale; and No. 16 is the Apple App Store delivering its 15 billionth app.
I have no idea where the McDonald's count stands these days.
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