Second Life just passed the 2 million account mark and the growth rate for the past month is remarkable.
The Second Life login screen and XML statistics blobs are reporting that Second Life has passed it’s two millionth signup. The figures normally only update at midnight, but someone manually updated them within the last 90 minutes or so.
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It’s always busy out there. Except for updates, concurrency remains over 7,500 now, peaking over 18,000. Unless something goes drastically wrong, it isn’t going to get less busy than this.
The next 12 months will tell the tale of whether Second Life flames out like Friendster or grow like AOL did in the mid 90’s. Our feeling is that Second Life will be on the AOL track. SL is a quantum leap in user experience, similar to what AOL did for the online experience. If we are looking at a high growth track, SL will also have all the problems AOL had in the mid-90’s.