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This chart is based on statistics collected from the Identi.ca public feed. It's simply a quick look at the number of notices posted per user between 7/26 and 8/5. (The service came online on 7/1.) There's a pretty typical long tail of usage. A total of 4,459 users have posted at least once. 1,109 of them have only posted once. 2,164 have posted 5 or more times. There's a core group of users who are basically using the service like IRC or group chat. Either using XMPP clients or Twhirl, they're conducting real time conversations in the same way others use IM for 1-to-1 chat. Some might consider it interesting that Evan Prodromou, Identi.ca founder, is hovering at #10 on the list.

Here's a snapshot of one night's worth of conversation on Identi.ca, courtesy of Creative Commons, XMPP, and the open-source network visualization software Cytoscape. See anyone you know?

This is simply a graph of the number of followers for the top 50 most followed users as listed in User 21's Top 250. I created the graph because I was curious to see if there was any obvious drop off between Allen Stern's Default Nine and the rest of the pack. There doesn't seem to be. The Default Nine are in fact the top nine on the graph, but you'll notice steverubel, chrisbrogan, l0ckergn0me (chris pirillo), and fredwilson are hot on their heels.