Over a million users are registered on Github.

Github celebrated the 1 million registered users with a holiday card .

The popularity of social web services for collaborative project development is growing very fast. The previous anniversary of 100 thousand accounts was celebrated in July 2009 . It is curious that the schedule starts with the number 2, so many registered users were at the time of launch.

It is necessary to consider that the actual number of developers who commit the code for projects on Github is much more than a million.

Thus, it turns out that a significant proportion of all programmers have already registered on Github. After all, there are not so many of them in the world. According to government statistics for 2010, there were 1,336,300 software developers in the United States and 1,016,929 IT workers in Japan. So around the world, probably, no more than 20 million "official" programmers.