Identi.ca figures

Below you find figures about the microblogging service identi.ca, the software StatusNet it runs on and other websites which use StatusNet.
If you know other figures, please add or drop a message here, thank you! reason I created this was: to have some figures at hand to convince others to join identica

Contents 1 identi.ca - users, notices, sites, ... 2 identi.ca - groups 3 See also 4 Notes

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  general figures
  identi.ca / Status.Net

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  posts in top6 groups

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  members in top6 identi.ca groups

identi.ca - users, notices, sites, ...

date	users		notices (aka dents)	groups		access	software version (StatusNet/Laconica)	sites		comment
	identi.ca	all StatusNet sites		posts in top6 groups	members in top6 groups			on status.net cloud hosting	public web
2008 June 21	108[1]
2008 July 1 (1st day of launch)	8000		19000
2008 July 3	10000[2]						0.4.1[3]
2008 November 4			1 mio
2008 December 11							0.6.4[4]
2009 January 27			2 mio
2009 March 25			3 mio
2009 March										audience: about 1/3 from Germany[5]
2009 April	ca. 50000
2009 May							0.7.4[6]
2009 June	ca. 60000[7]
2009 July 27			>7 mio[8]
2009 August 28										Laconica is now StatusNet[9]
2009 Oct 28					9725
2010 February 14	>130000 ?[10]
2010 February 22										launch of adbard.net network on identi.ca[11]
2010 March 3							0.9.0[12]
2010 March 9		1 mio[13]						10000[14]
2010 March						200000
2010 March 26[15]								>12000	2000
date	identi.ca users	users from all StatusNet sites	notices	posts in top6 groups	members in top6 groups	access	software version	on status.net cloud hosting	sites: public web	comment
2010 April	>150000
2010 April 22	>160000
2010 May 28[16]		1.5 mio[17]						25000[18]
2010 August, begin							0.9.4 beta[19]
2010 September 10							0.9.5[20]
2010 October 13								<32000[21]
2010 October 28										AdBard covers about 5-7% of hosting costs of running identi.ca[22]
2010 October 29							0.9.6[23]			>25000 spammers silenced in October 2010[24]
2010 Nov 15					44932
2010 Dec 3					46430
2010 December 31	>330000
2011 January 6			ca. 61 mio[25]
2011 January 7										audience: India 21.2%, US 16.9%, Indonesia 8.5%, Germany 5.5%, Pakistan 5.0%, UK 4.3%, Philippines 2.7%, Russia 2.6%, Thailand 2.4%, Italy 2.4[26]
2011, Jan 13				156974	51115
2011, Feb 12	>358000
2011, Feb 21							0.9.7beta2[27]	45000[28]		staff: 9; 5000 downloads of Statusnet per month[29]
2011, Mar 22	>383000			166236	56462
2011, Jul 2	450000[30]
2011, Mid-Sep							1.0.0 beta + rc1			identi.ca has 75M-row table[31]
2012 Feb 24	>576k			202872	73888		1.0.1
date	identi.ca users	users from all StatusNet sites	notices	posts in top6 groups	members in top6 groups	access	software version	on status.net cloud hosting	sites: public web	comment

sources: When no reference is given the below source is valid:

• Seite „Identi.ca“. In: Wikipedia, Die freie Enzyklopädie. Bearbeitungsstand: 4. Januar 2011, 19:56 UTC. URL: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Identi.ca&oldid=83454072 (Abgerufen: 6. Januar 2011, 18:25 UTC)

identi.ca - groups

date (CET)	Groups with most posts (ACTIVE GROUPS)							Groups with most members (POPULAR GROUPS)							comments
	ubuntu	dailyme	linux	twitterfails	kde	listening	sum top6	ubuntu	linux	gnu	debian	python	kde	sum top6
2009 Oct 28								2971	2300	1215	1092	1134	1013	9725	source[32]
2010 Nov 15								10419	10289	7689	7382	5385	3768	44932	source[33]
2010 Dec 3								10723	10619	7954	7632	5565	3937	46430	source[34]
2011, Jan 13, 15:16	41246	32912	31095	18786	17755	15180	156974	11676	11640	8877	8464	6061	4397	51115
2011, Jan 23, 20:41	41500	33122	31536	18791	17983	15312	158244	11861	11825	9016	8588	6159	4493	51942
2011, Feb 12, 08:50	42070	33604	32288	18792	18571	15639	160964	12194	12178	9297	8912	6316	4656	53553
2011, Mar 22, 11:27	43184	34666	33775	18799	19430	16382	166236	12819	12909	9789	9416	6628	4901	56462
2011, Aug 12, 18:20	47442	35780	38573	18808	22682	18691	181976	14547	15274	11539	11188	7808	5867	66223
2011, Sep 24, 14:40	48071	35781	40057	18812	23438	19179	185338	14923	15736	11835	11478	7976	6005	67953	name change at identi.ca; a few days after new StatsusNet 1.0 was released on identi.ca
2012, February 24	51543	35857	48318	18830	27871	20453	202872	15954	17176	12959	12515	8595	6689	73888

See also

• identi.ca unique visitors (the decline could mean: people are now installing their own StatusNet instances?)
• How much spam activity is on identi.ca ?
  • comment on figures

StatusNet:

• StatusNet installs in the wild wild internet
• Experiences with identi.ca
• sites that run StatusNet: [1]

Friendika:

• How many friendica servers and users are out there ?

Notes

1. ↑ Evan Prodromou on identi.ca, 21 June 2008
2. ↑ Bob Ngu: Open Source Twitter is here, July 4, 2008
3. ↑ Bob Ngu: Open Source Twitter is here, July 4, 2008
4. ↑ Evan Prodromou: Laconica version 0.6.4 release tonight on Identi.ca, 11 December 2008
5. ↑ Seite „Identi.ca“. In: Wikipedia, Die freie Enzyklopädie. Bearbeitungsstand: 24. März 2009, 21:37 Uhr. URL: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Identi.ca&action=historysubmit&diff=58279968&oldid=58279129 (Abgerufen: 7. Januar 2011, 11:06)
6. ↑ StatusNet wiki: Laconica 0.8.0
7. ↑ Evan Prodromou on Open Source Bridge Foundation
8. ↑ Heri Rakotomalala: Evan Prodromou wins Open Source Award, July 27th, 2009
9. ↑ Evan Prodromou: Laconica is now StatusNet, 28.8.2009
10. ↑ this is only assumption: which error I am causing when I assume that my userid (User ID 131198, Member since 14 Feb 2010) has something to do with amount of registered people?
11. ↑ Evan Prodromou: AdBard on Identi.ca, 2010 February 22
12. ↑ StatusNet. (2010, November 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:40, January 6, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=StatusNet&oldid=398850182
13. ↑ Erick Schonfeld: StatusNet Signs Sh*t My Dad Says For Hosted Microblogging (Public Beta), Mar 9, 2010
14. ↑ Erick Schonfeld: StatusNet Signs Sh*t My Dad Says For Hosted Microblogging (Public Beta), Mar 9, 2010
15. ↑ Evan Prodromou on StatusNet Talk Page. (2010, November 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:50, January 6, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:StatusNet&oldid=352084246
16. ↑ Evan Prodromou, 28.5.2010
17. ↑ this is a number given by Evan Prodromou, 28.5.2010
18. ↑ federated network-of-networks, see Evan Prodromou, 28.5.2010
19. ↑ Derek Derouin: StatusReport: StatusNet 0.9.4 Beta, SXSW 2011 Panel Picker, GSoC finals approaching!, 12th August 2010
20. ↑ StatusNet. (2010, November 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:40, January 6, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=StatusNet&oldid=398850182
21. ↑ it's mentioned that they are signed up, not that they use it, so I used the symbol <, see Evan Prodromou: First-ever StatusNet Customer Survey, 10/13/2010
22. ↑ Evan Prodromou: Ad server changes on Identi.ca, 10/28/2010
23. ↑ Seite „StatusNet“. In: Wikipedia, Die freie Enzyklopädie. Bearbeitungsstand: 6. November 2010, 22:15 UTC. URL: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=StatusNet&oldid=81199399 (Abgerufen: 6. Januar 2011, 18:44 UTC)
24. ↑ Evan Prodromou: Not, in fact, overrun by spam, 10/29/2010 in: Evan Prodromou: Ad server changes on Identi.ca
25. ↑ identi.ca message
26. ↑ Alexa
27. ↑ seen today, can be released earlier though
28. ↑ Evan Prodromou: Can Montreal Become an Open Source Startup Hub? February 21, 2011 in: nextMontreal
29. ↑ Evan Prodromou: Can Montreal Become an Open Source Startup Hub? February 21, 2011 in: nextMontreal
30. ↑ Third anniversary of Identi.ca
31. ↑ Status of upgrade to StatusNet 1.0.0 on Identi.ca and StatusNet Cloud
32. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20091028113453/http://identi.ca/
33. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20101115230934/http://identi.ca/
34. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20101203190712/http://identi.ca/