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(Reuters) – Video conferencing provider Zoom said on Thursday it had mistakenly published a blog last week that put its daily users at 300 million people when the figure instead referred to the number of meeting participants.

The Zoom blog from April 22 has now been edited to say that the company had surpassed “300 million daily Zoom meeting participants” instead of “more than 300 million daily users”. (bit.ly/2x47sEY)

“When we realized this error, we adjusted the wording to ‘participants’,” the company said, adding, “this was a genuine oversight on our part.”

Shares of the video conferencing app fell 6.6% to $136.84 in morning trade following an initial report by The Verge, which spotted the change in the blog post to meeting participants.

Daily active users is a standard term in the tech sector, which seeks to count individual users…