The attack was more than cosmetic, as it disrupted the @comcast.com email addresses of many users, as well as many hosted email accounts.
It boast three times as many users as its closest direct rival, YouSendIt.
Its iPhone application alone has about as many users as Sirius has subscribers.
It is the most popular alternative browser since Netscape, with about three times as many users as Apple's Safari.
A company that did not exist 10 years ago now has as many users as India has people.
Rather than launch another product that depended on gathering as many users as possible from the get-go, Jelly would change course.
That means it may be only a few days away from reaching as many users as Google's Android 4.1.x, which has 287m users.
It's really key that we have as many users as possible and they find it as easy to use as possible".
"The goal was to get as many users as we could on a powerful new platform that could exploit the Web," Schmidt said of Android.
As Instagram aims to appeal to as many users as possible, gaining a higher age rating to allow more explicit content would alienate younger users, Mr Systrom said.
But despite the problems, the site now has more than twice as many users as it did late last mnth, according to the site's Twitter account.
