October 29, 2002 Update

Preface:
1. Meetup helps organize monthly gatherings on just about any topic (612 topics to date) just about anywhere (532 cities and growing).

2. People use Meetup to connect with each other to talk about common interests.

3. They meet up at local coffee shops, bars, restaurants, stores, bowling alleys and more.

4. Meetup was born 138 days ago on Friday, June 14, 2002


Memebers signed in 67,127
Topics represented 612

Total Meetups to date 1,630
# people who've met up 11,322

Cities, worldwide 532
Countries represented 25

Advertising spending $ 0


Top 20 Cities w/memberships (10/29):
1 New York City 2868
2 London, England 1750
3 Toronto 1519
4 Chicago, IL 1416
5 Washington DC 1380
6 Boston, MA 1116
7 LA-Santa Monica 1089
8 Atlanta, GA 1065
9 Seattle, WA 1053
10 Philadelphia, PA 1051
11 Dallas-Plano, TX 924
12 Vancouver, Canada 910
13 San Diego, CA 904
14 Houston-Galveston,TX 882
15 San Francisco, CA 881
16 Portland, OR 840
17 Austin, TX 821
18 Orange County, CA 791
19 Melbourne 779
20 Minneapolis, MN 722

Top 20 Topics w/memberships (10/29):
1 Slashdot 8193
2 Livejournal 7292
3 Witches 5539
4 Blog 3281
5 Fark 2771
6 Pagan 1588
7 Radiohead 1566
8 Tori Amos 1346
9 Ultima Online 1256
10 Xanga 1186
11 Xena 1159
12 Ex-Jehovah's Witness 1103
13 Counterstrike 1029
14 Vampires 954
15 Bookcrossing 884
16 Star Trek 805
17 PHP 802
18 U2 754
19 Buffy 705
20 Phish 691

Per-city/per-topic data is available for local media outlets seeking trends.

Press inquiries:
Myles Weissleder
415-332-3684