Sally Linden on the “Residents” statistic

By Catherine Winters | Published: August 11, 2006

On the Linden Blog today, Sally Linden writes:

There has lately been much confusion and speculation surrounding the “Residents” statistic on the home page of http://secondlife.com. This post is an effort to clear that up.

She goes on to say:

…there was an internal conversation about the number we were reporting, what the Residents thought it represented, and how we could be more transparent. The number that is currently on our home page is a time-weighted average between “total number of signups ever” and “total number of logged in users over the last 60 days”. As of right now, those numbers are 493,563 and 225,028.

And most usefully:

We plan to change the home page to display those two numbers separately. At that time the current “Residents” number will be removed. This change should take place sometime next week.

I’d really be interested in seeing the total number of successful unique logins in the previous 24 hours as well. We’ll see what the response is.

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  1. Verified Accounts and Trust Metrics — Part 1
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6 Comments

  1. chromal brodsky
    Posted August 11, 2006 at 4:58 pm | Permalink

    Aaah, great! I can’t wait to have access to the hard numbers, hopefully next week!

  2. Torley Linden
    Posted August 11, 2006 at 7:18 pm | Permalink

    I’d like to see a Royksopp “Remind Me” version of *this*!

  3. Catherine Omega
    Posted August 11, 2006 at 7:27 pm | Permalink

    Best. Music. Video. Ever.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=lBvaHZIrt0o

  4. Siobhan Taylor
    Posted August 11, 2006 at 11:03 pm | Permalink

    Max concurrent logins would e nice too… Let’s see what peak usage is, maybe graphed over time.

  5. Baba
    Posted August 11, 2006 at 11:23 pm | Permalink

    This has been another stirring edition of the OMEGA POINT

  6. Catherine Omega
    Posted August 11, 2006 at 11:35 pm | Permalink

    Well, we already know max concurrent logins; it just requires data mining.

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  1. By 400k - Frans on July 21, 2009 at 3:04 pm

    […] Catherine Omega asked some questions as well. And to be honest Sally Linden’s answer feels like a cop out. “There’s limited real estate on the home page, as I’m sure you know. We’re trying to put statistics there which represent useful trends, rather than the flash volatility of the latest huge press buzz.” […]