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Now, does anyone have the time to figure out how many users Github has in their users table? :) http://dheera.net/projects/blur



Atleast 3,815,207 users. (who have performed some meaningful GitHub action)

Via BigQuery:

   SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT actor) FROM [githubarchive:github.timeline];


The mosaic effect they used doesn't appear to be real, as no number has a horizontal gap between two parts.

However, GitHub user IDs are/always used to be sequential, create a new account and see what its user ID is. It's around 8.6 million at the moment.




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