Jean has pointed out the crossing of 12 million concurrent users online earlier today. And Skype finally released a number that won't help the investment analysts: Skype usage has passed the 100 billion minute mark. So what has the blogsphere said?

• Eric Schonfeld at Tech Crunch seems to have a minute-to-call converter with a 1:1 ratio. But nowhere do I see Skype giving out the average number of minutes per call.
• Villu Arak at Skype has looked up other milestones that use the number 100 billion.
• Jon Arnold notes both milestones and comments:

Skype may have its share of challenges, but they have definitely taken telephony where it's never been before, and of course are trying to do the same now with video. You only hit 100 billion once, and it's a great testament to what Niklas and Janus started only a few years ago, and I'd say it's definitely worthy of recognition. And for what it's worth, I've used Skype more today than I have in ages, so in my very small way, I'm helping the cause.

But let's get one number straight: 276 million accounts have been registered since day one, not 276 million users. There are lots of reasons to have multiple accounts and I can see more as Skype movers towards 0.2  trillion minutes of calling time.

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