[alasdair_]

The US has roughly 330 million people in it.

"Many hundreds of millions" implies at least three of them.

I would not expect the entire population of the US to be playing on day one, especially the roughly 50% of them that don't even own a phone.

[BinaryIdiot]

I'm not sure I follow. Why are you only focusing on the US? This was launched in many countries. Granted not at the same time but that's why I said take the aggregate of each launch day.

[alasdair_]

I took "on launch day in America" to mean the US (since no other part of the Americas was launched on that day).

[BinaryIdiot]

You dropped the "Asia" from that. "America and Asia". Also looks like I forgot to mention the other regions in this comment (mentioned it in another one).

Sigh. This would have been easier if we had real numbers. Let us all test our hypothesis. Oh well.

[hexane360]

Maybe there were just a lot of sockpuppet users. :P