It’s only 15 months since I mentioned the rocket-like acceleration of Akismet which went from a standing start to the point where it had fended off a million spam messages for its users in just 4 months. If things had continued at that pace it would have squashed a cool 5 million spams by now.

There’s been a bit of a ramp, however:

1. Nine months ago Akismet caught it’s 100 millionth spam.
2. Sometime this week Akismet will kill spam number one billion.

Check out the stats, watch it happen live.

A virtual high-5 to everyone at Automattic. Great job guys, a great service, and the scaling has been perfectly handled.

Perhaps we should start a sweep-stake for how long it will take to hit one trillion?