Skype on Monday announced that it hit 27 million concurrent users.

      "New record: 27 million people online on Skype right now!" the VoIP service announced on its Facebook page.

      The announcement comes almost two months after Skype announced that it had recorded 25 million users Skyping concurrently.

      "Our software is designed to handle large numbers of concurrent users, with wideband audio and group video calls all flowing smoothly around the world," the company wrote in a blog post at the time.

      Those numbers also come in the wake of a December outage that left millions of users without access to Skype. The Luxembourg-based company later said a software bug was the ultimate source of the problem, and that it had learned lessons from the failure, which would lead to "better processes."

      Skype was also at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, where it announced its acquisition of mobile service provider Qik, as well as an improved video-chat feature that allows 10 people to videoconference together for just $8.99 per month.

Source from PCMag