SL population -- "active" vs. "total"
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Ricky Zamboni
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05-05-2006 11:30
From a post by Robin Linden: From: Robin Linden The number that appears on the home page of our website reflects accounts created, currently at 209,075. Obviously not every account ever created is still actively involved in Second Life, so we also look at 'active' accounts. The way to count active accounts that we think is most meaningful is a trailing 60 day measure of unique log-ins. That number is currently just over 103,000, and will be included in the stats that we will be reporting daily, beginning next week. I think this is the first quasi-official, mostly-unambiguous statement of the SL population that has been given. Mind you, 60 days is a *long* time in attention span-space. I'd like to see 7-, 14-, 30-, and 60-day stats released. (Note: this thread was first posted in Land and Economy. It's probably more appropriate in General though...) |
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Lordfly Digeridoo
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05-05-2006 11:41
Getting reliable numbers from any MMORPG company is usually an effort in futility. Lineage, for example, claimed something like 6 million people playing in 2001, many years before WoW ever rolled onto the scene.
Even WoW's numbers are quite probably inflated. It looks good on press releases and on investor's minds.
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Burke Prefect
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05-05-2006 11:42
That'll be great! To let us know how many people there are to sell to!
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Jamie Bergman
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05-05-2006 11:44
From: Burke Prefect That'll be great! To let us know how many people there are to sell to! You're a thinker. Thats why I love you. *Kisses* |
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Brace Coral
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05-05-2006 11:49
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Ricky Zamboni
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05-05-2006 11:54
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Cocoanut Cookie
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05-05-2006 12:02
Yay! I've been looking forward to getting this answer!
coco
P.S. Your 130k, Brace, was not that far off from 103k, and was generous to boot!
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Brace Coral
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05-05-2006 12:15
From: Cocoanut Cookie Yay! I've been looking forward to getting this answer!
coco
P.S. Your 130k, Brace, was not that far off from 103k, and was generous to boot! Rofl SexyNut - I ended up with 80K but yeah it was interesting to see my first chop out landing so close to Robinspeak post
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Salazar Jack
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Population History
05-05-2006 12:48
Is there any population history info available online for Second Life? I'm particularly interested in about how many people were here in February of 2004 when I first arrived My gut tells me that it was around 2,500, but I may be WAY off
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Ricky Zamboni
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05-05-2006 12:50
From: Salazar Jack Is there any population history info available online for Second Life? I'm particularly interested in about how many people were here in February of 2004 when I first arrived My gut tells me that it was around 2,500, but I may be WAY off I remember in the spring of 2004 LL announcing that they had hit 10,000 users, so you're probably not that far off. Edited to add: This post from October 2005 has some useful numbers in it... |
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Cocoanut Cookie
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05-05-2006 12:51
I remember in February of 2005 when I joined, there were about 35k subscribers.
coco
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FlipperPA Peregrine
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05-05-2006 12:56
From: Ricky Zamboni I think this is the first quasi-official, mostly-unambiguous statement of the SL population that has been given. Mind you, 60 days is a *long* time in attention span-space. I'd like to see 7-, 14-, 30-, and 60-day stats released. At last night's community roundtable, it was announced that a new stats section is going to be release (I wish I had the Linden quotes verbatim) containing all kinds of cool, juicy data! Regards, -Flip
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Salazar Jack
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05-05-2006 13:05
From: Cocoanut Cookie I remember in February of 2005 when I joined, there were about 35k subscribers.
coco I must have been thinking of perhaps 25,000 then... for some reason the number 25 was on my brain (and in my gut). |
