Lies, Damn Lies

[andrewducker]

and the Livejournal stats page.

Which says that there are 59584 users. Which is almost exactly 0.1% of the population. Which is pretty darned impressive - one person in a thousand uses LJ.

Admittedly, the stats also say that of the 1.4 million LJ users, only 540,000 of them were active in the last month, so only half of all nominal users are actual using it.

Still, that's 0.05% of the population. One in every 2000 people in the UK is actively using LJ. Which is kinda surprising, for a website brad started in his bedroom three years ago.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

That's very odd, given that the ratio in the US is only about 1 in 7,000 (for active users). I wonder by it is 3.5 x more popular in Britain.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Higher percentage urban people, more packed country = more cool, more wired, etc people per capita. We don't have a Mid West to speak of :-) (Note I didn;t say "more intelligent people" :->

[elwe.livejournal.com]

Huh? "United States - 1,078,997" out of 270 million = about one in three hundred. Discounting by half (to account for inactive users), you get about 1 in 600 for the US versus 1 in 2000 for Britain.

Anyway, I can very well believe the rates are so high; I see people using it on public computers all over the place

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

And the stats page hasn't updated since 31 October, either! (We're, uh, trying to figure out why not.)

You have to take duplicate accounts into account -- like, one person with 10 LJ accounts -- but that's still really damn cool.

(And LJ's first post was 3/18/99, so we're coming up on going into our fifth year. Woah.)

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

At a guess though, I'd say Singapore is top user, given its small population.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I misplaced a decimal place, but what I was looking at was not the number of people in the US who have journals, but the number of people in the US who have active journals that they updated in the last 30 days. The actual number (correcting for the decimal place) is one in 700.

Re: stats page

[taromazzy.livejournal.com]

Canada's a country now?

[taromazzy.livejournal.com]

If one in a thousand people use LJ,
then 2 in a thousand are our parents.
Whoooo!

[taromazzy.livejournal.com]

7789 users are aged thirty (or at least, admit to it)
I feel part of big, old, greying group.

(theres still time to send me a present - I'll be thirty till November 2004!)