Editing BitTorrent (section)

=== Popularity and traffic statistics ===
{{As of|2012|1}}, BitTorrent was utilized by 150 million active users. Based on this figure, the total number of monthly users could be estimated to more than a quarter of a billion (≈ 250 million).<ref>{{cite web |date=9 January 2012 |title=BitTorrent and μTorrent Software Surpass 150 Million User Milestone |url=http://www.bittorrent.com/intl/es/company/about/ces_2012_150m_users |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326102305/http://www.bittorrent.com/intl/es/company/about/ces_2012_150m_users |archive-date=26 March 2014 |access-date=9 July 2012 |publisher=Bittorrent.com |df=dmy-all}}</ref> {{As of|2013|02|post=,}} BitTorrent was responsible for 3.35% of all worldwide [[Bandwidth (computing)|bandwidth]]—more than half of the 6% of total bandwidth dedicated to file sharing.<ref>{{cite web |title=Application Usage & Threat Report |url=http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/app-usage-risk-report-visualization/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031153132/http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/app-usage-risk-report-visualization/ |archive-date=31 October 2013 |access-date=7 April 2013 |publisher=Palo Alto Networks. 2013}}</ref> {{As of|2013}}, BitTorrent had 15–27&nbsp;million concurrent users at any time.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wang |first1=Liang |title=IEEE P2P 2013 Proceedings |last2=Kangasharju |first2=J. |date=1 September 2013 |isbn=978-1-4799-0515-7 |pages=1–10 |chapter=Measuring large-scale distributed systems: Case of BitTorrent Mainline DHT |doi=10.1109/P2P.2013.6688697 |access-date=7 January 2016 |chapter-url=https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lw525/MLDHT/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118101022/http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lw525/MLDHT/ |archive-date=18 November 2015 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all |s2cid=5659252}}</ref>