uTorrent Market Share Is Up but Vuze and Bittorrent.com are Struggling

utorrentBittorrent is currently a huge market on the internet. Tribler P2P research team at Delft University of Technology has reported the current marketshare numbers between the top bittorrent clients available at the moment.

uTorrent remains the client of choice for over 60% of all BitTorrent users. Vuze is in second place, but its market share has dropped to 14%. Transmission, on the other hand, continues to gain ground, with the client’s market share increasing by 23% in the last two months.

The data is based from over 17,221 unique user in a few dozen public Bittorrent swarms. Bittorrent is still by far the lading file-sharing technology with millions of people using the protocol every day.

BitTorrent Client Market Share, October 2009
Ranking Client Market Share % Change % Platform
1 uTorrent 60.16% +5.90% Windows, Mac
2 Vuze 14.22% -21.56% Windows, Mac, Linux
3 BitTorrent Mainline 8.65% -26.63% Windows, Mac, Linux
4 BitComet 4.43% -5.95% Windows
5 Transmission 3.65% +23.73% Mac, Linux
* Unknown 7.97% +89.31% na.
* Other 0.92% -34.29% na.

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