Second Life Hits 1 Million Registered Avatars
Posted Wednesday, October 18th, 2006, at 1:21 pm Eastern by Mark Wallace
The virtual world of Second Life passed a milestone today, as the number of registered avatars passed the 1 million mark, driven by a spate of media mentions over the last couple of weeks. Note, though, that this is only to say that a million unique avatar names have been registered. It doesn’t really give a clue as to how many people have visted the world, nor to how many use it on a regular basis, since many people run more than one avatar. The economic statistics page is more revealing, showing that 139,963 avatars have logged in over the last 7 days. But even this figure overcounts the number of people using SL. (I have logged in two or three different avatars this week, for instance.) Still, it’s a notable event. Congratulations, SL!
TrackbackURL: http://www.3pointd.com/20061018/second-life-hits-1-million-registered-avatars/trackback/
Feeds
That’s insane, I was just checking yesterday while making a blog post about the total registrants, and it was at around 960k. How they got 40k registrants in under 24 hours is beyond me, but those numbers have been corrected before.
On Tuesdays, everybody logs in all their alts to collect all their stipends lol. It’s true that there were a LOT of newbies, however, Tony. All the Welcome Areas, infohubs, Help Islands, etc. were showing 10,000-20,000 traffic when the often show only 2000-4000.