SoundCloud passes 10 million users - could face legal action

SoundCloud has today reached over 10 million users - this is an incredible achievement when you think that they were on 5 million users in July 2011, which means they have doubled their user base in just 6 months. To honour the success of this, they have launched a new Instagram-powered feature, Story Wheel, which allows users to add words to their pictures. However, not everything is looking bright for the company, with the action that has been taken against the likes of Megaupload and Grooveshark in the past 7 days. TechCrunch has announced that SoundCloud could be amongst sites to be in the firing line of the U.S. government in the coming months. Watch this space...

Co-founder Alexander Ljung said in a statement:

When Eric (Wahlforss) and I started SoundCloud, we had the vision of enabling people to create and share sound more easily and collaboratively. Today 10 million people are recognizing that vision and it makes us extremely proud and encouraged that people are supporting our mission to unmute the web.