More than 4 million people subscribed to Netflix in the fourth quarter

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It's a big day for Netflix. In addition to announcing Tuesday they'd release The Interview to U.S. and Canada subscribers Saturday, the company posted a successful fourth quarter earnings report.

Netflix added 4.33 million subscribers at the end of 2014. More than half were foreign users. The company expects to pass 60 million subscribers worldwide by the end of March.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.