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January 30, 2004
LiveJournal hits 2M
Posted by Seb Paquet
Mike Percowitz writes:
According to
this LJ status post, livejournal has passed 2 million users, half of which are active "in some way". they hit 1 million only 9 months ago (and for most of the intervening time, new memberships were throttled by the invite code/pay requirement). That's a lot of people.
I wouldn't be so quick to equate one journal to one person, but I have to say the number is impressive. (
More detailed stats here, and don't miss the
evocative chart here) And we're not counting clone sites such as
DeadJournal. The page linked in the quote above gives signs of an upcoming unbundling of the "friend-of" relationship in the system:
One of our big goals for February is to split up the overloaded concept of "friends", turning it into separate categories relating to who you read on your friends page, who you trust to read your entries, who you know in real life, etc.
(And speaking of milestones, it's worth noting that the
English Wikipedia is steadily inching towards 200,000 articles, double the size it was
last year.)
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1. Evan Martin on January 30, 2004 4:04 PM writes...
There's a nice graph of the recent explosion of new growth (over 10 thousand new accounts per day! and we have bot-blocking "read this image" stuff!) over here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mendel/63920.html
Permalink to Comment2. Mike Perkowitz on January 30, 2004 6:05 PM writes...
It would be interesting to know how many people have multiple journals (not even factoring in community journals). I'm sure plenty of people have a public journal their friends see and a stealth journal in which to vent about those friends. Which of course gets into the whole thing about worrying about your mom and your boss seeing your blog...
(thanks for the link.. it's "mike perkowitz" though :)
Permalink to Comment3. Seb on January 30, 2004 6:12 PM writes...
"Venting journal" - interesting pattern. Sorry for the mistake Mike - fixed now.
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