Who’s the biggest 3D Virtual World Now?
Recently two of the big 3D Virtual Worlds released some numbers of how they are doing, and I thought it might be fun to compare. IMVU Population: 40 million registered users Active: 6 million average monthly uniques Money Spent (Annual Run Rate) : $25 million Activity: Users average 1 hour + per day on the site Peak Traffic: 80,000 simultaneous users online Other Stats: 770,000 chat sessions per day, and 175,000 virtual items are sold daily Source Second Life Population: Over 20 million registered accounts Active: Over 1 million unique logins a month, over 750,000 average monthly repeat logins (logged in at least twice in a month) Money Spent (Annual Run Rate) : over $500 million Activity: Users average 1.3 hours + per day on the site Peak Traffic: Peak Concurrent Users hit 88,065 in April 09 Other Stats: Over 1 million monetary transactions per day Source and Source These are very interesting statistics. While I realize that the nature of these two 3DVWs is very different, making mean
