Formspring, the extremely viral Q&A platform, hit a huge milestone this past weekend: one billion questions answered.
Formspring, which launched around nine months ago, has been going like gangbusters lately. According to a company rep, the site currently has 16.5 million users — up from 14 million two months ago — and it’s seeing 5 million questions answered each day, with a daily peak of about 9,000 answers per minute.
Why this explosive growth? It probably has something to do with its increasing innovation and growth. The site went multiplayer in July, allowing users to pose questions to more than one friend, and recently launched a feature called Connections, which lets you see who you’ve interacted with. Also, there have been a bevy of third-party extensions of late, including Taptivate’s Spring iPhone app, Seesmic’s Desktop 2 featuring a Formspring plugin and an extension courtesy of Flavors.me.
Integrations with the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Blogger, MySpace and WordPress, probably also contributed greatly to the one-billion figure. An excess of 200,000 users took advantage of the WordPress/MySpace integration within the first few days of its launch alone.
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