German mobile platform claims faster growth than Facebook

With a claimed growth rate of more than 100% in the last six months, German mobile community qeep says it reached the 2 million-user mark earlier this week. Only released internationally in March 2008, qeep claims to have reached its first 1 million users in less than a year and by April 2009 said it already had 1 500 000 users with over 100 million private messages sent (QMS) and over 200 million page impressions every month. While qeep has users from over 200 countries, it reports that it is most popular in South Africa.