# How many people are on-line at any one time?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-are-on-line-at-any-one-time/63393>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2001, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-are-on-line-at-any-one-time/63393 "2001-04-26T12:04:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kendo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Kendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kendo)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2001, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-are-on-line-at-any-one-time/63393/1 "2001-04-26T12:04:48Z")

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I sometimes wonder how many other bored souls 🙂 are using the internet at the exact time I am.

Ergo my question.

Hope someone can help!

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**Author:** ![Alonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Alonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonist)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-are-on-line-at-any-one-time/63393/2 "2001-04-27T06:53:40Z")

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You mean, at 7:04 A.M.? To give a rough, single-site count, it’s about 1:57 A.M. CST where I am, and there are approximately 4,111 people logged on to a popular music-sharing site.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-are-on-line-at-any-one-time/63393/3 "2001-04-27T15:43:49Z")

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This question gets asked about once a week. You’d have to find the site that keeps Internet traffic stats, whatever it was.