Interesting article on the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13467598

'Besides its population of 1.3 billion, an estimated 40 million non-Chinese nationals are learning simplified characters, with more than 200,000 studying in China.

In contrast, only around 30 million people use traditional characters daily - mostly in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau - that's only about 2% of Chinese speakers. And only about 12,500 foreigners come to Taiwan to study traditional Chinese each year.'

I wonder how many of those 40m non-Chinese nationals are learning the characters using Skritte? :)

Yeah, I started out studying simplified characters because of those numbers, but I soon realized that many of the Chinese people in NYC where I live use traditional characters. (I think the same is true in San Francisco.)

Exactly, depends on when you are located, figures have different meaning.

Have to mention that still a LOT of college still teach traditional during the 1st/2nd years of college and those which don't usually required to be able reading them at the end of the cursus.

I have moved to Taiwan 3 months ago. When I decided to come here, I started taking Chinese class back home, which was teaching simplified only. Back then, I used to Skritter both styles, but I have moved on to learning traditional only.