A quarter million Residents!

More useful statistics can be found on a Harvard Business Review article on SL. Here's a summary from http://www.raphkoster.com:

1. 165,000 total active residents,
   
2. of which 65,000 are paying in some form,
   
3. and “over 3000? are making real world money,
   
4. averaging $20,000 a year each (skewed by the really high earners, of course).
   

Anybody know why today we've lost ~10,000 residents? The front page is only showing that there are 243,671 residents.

I was wondering the same thing, Moopf. Maybe the Lindens did some sort of purge of basic or trial accounts that have been inactive for a certain period of time. They have been known to do that on occasion.

My guess is that all the controversy here, on NWN, Clickable Culture and elsewhere have caused them to purge very old, unused accounts. Probably a good thing.

http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2006/06/where_did_all_t.html

Anyone else get the feeling that LL is trying to inflate their account numbers in order to tempt perspective buyers?

Yes. But if they are purging inactive accounts, they are being honest about it.

coco

Maybe BANs

if properly stunned, they make dandy doorstops

Alts do not exist...

Yesterday, 04:21 PM #1
Svar Beckersted
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 292

Residents: 243,671
Yesterday this number was 256,336. I'll be gone today so could sombody find and ask a Linden what happened to almost 13,000 new residents?

Chris Linden
Program Manager

Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 172

Great question!

Internally, we count our total number of residents in a couple of different ways, all for valid reasons. A couple of these different methods are: accounts in good standing, active last 30 days, active last 60 days, etc…

Even accounts in good standing can be counted a few different ways because we have numerous status' accounts can be in, some of which can be confusing as to whether they are "in good standing".

Anyway, to make a long story short, we've decided to tweak what we felt was a better representation of what our current resident count is.

So no, 10,000 residents weren't just eliminated. We now feel they were being improperly counted and adjusted the counter as such. As always, we strive to be as open and honest about our resident count as possible.

Chris

And now for something seriously as serious as this serious thread.

Hey Seraph! Nice name! =)

ROFLMAO

If you just created this account as an alt, that's just evil!!!!!!

And how did you get a last name of Seraph in June 2006? Or have you been around a while and are only posting now? (Can't get in-world to check your rez date

/me looks around to see if Spock has a beard....

ENRON



*giggles*
Savonah Madonna

Ewwww! You mean they are putting residents through the shredder? Messy!

In my opinion, that is exactly what it is.

Cocoanut Cookie: What exactly do they define as "inactive" though.


Seriously, I think it's all about the numbers. They want to be able to say "We've been around 3 years, and we have xxx,xxx users, and with your investment of $x,xxx,xxx(or more) LL will be able to move forward with x plan, which will easily return you x%.

Business is business is business. They all start with a neat concept, but sooner or later, the customers become nothing than a tool to attract investors with the end objective being either selling to a larger company, or going public.

257,393 as of this writing... pretty sure it was in the 246,000 range yesterday. Observations?

I think this thread can explain most of the 13,000 extra accounts.....