At exactly 9:25 PM PST today, the download counter at WordPress touched the 3 million mark.

That means WordPress 2.6 self-hosted software has been downloaded more than 3 million times from wordpress.org.

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I was lucky enough to watch this live when the ticker moved from 2,999,992 to that magical 3,000,002 mark. Congrats Matt.