Giff Constable, a veep at The Electric Sheep Company, wrote a year-end review for Second Life. Among many interesting observations, traffic and concurrent users are way up, while US-based users are dropping as a percentage of the whole:
...if you just look at concurrent users, a year ago max concurrent users was around 5 thousand. Today it is around 20 thousand, a 300% growth rate, although still a fairly small pond. An important part of this story is the international expansion of SL: in the spring, 75% of users were from North America. That number is now around 45%, and sign-ups are about 50-50 North America vs. International.
Giff does a great job documenting the major events of the year, including traffic milestones, RL corporate launches, media coverage, grey goo attacks and all the major business players in Second Life. Check it out.
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