It’s interesting watching the growth of Describe Me. When a user first adds the app, he or she is automatically tagged by one of the developers as “cool,” in order to illustrate how the app works.

Recently I became the person tagging new users, and therefore get a ton of friend requests, pokes, or just “who the hell are you” emails from random people. At first it was just mainly people in the U.S., but I started to get requests and pokes from South Africa, Sweden, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Malaysia, and London to name a few of the more common locations (or rather, what they’ve indicated as their “network”).

Pretty neat to see it grow beyond the U.S. since it was not something we considered when the app was being built. Thankfully the db is running in UTF-8 to handle the various character sets — I’ve got at least one tag in Chinese which I can’t read but at least it renders correctly heh.

Oh, and as of this post, Describe Me has 80,249 users. Can’t wait until 100k! We’re gonna need to throw a celebration or something. :)