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Fastest growing is always a BS stat.


Can you expand on that?


Fastest growing really just means newest. Take the statement "fastest growing social media service" for example. If Facebook has 3 billion subscribers and manages to get another two billion that grew 67%. If I start a new service with myself as the only member and then convince 100 of my friends and family to join it grew 10,000%. Now I am the fastest growing social media service, until someone starts a new one that is.




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