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?
Alright, well… it works. Sort of. Unfortunately all the links in the resulting Tumblr post point back to posterous, e.g. the "Comments" link sends you back to the Posterous comment system. One of the nice things about Tumblr is it allows you to customize your theme, thereby allowing you to use the Disqus comment system. I'm not about to send people to one site (Tumblr aka blog.kshep.net) , only to have them redirected to another site (Posterous aka kshep.posterous.com) to leave a comment or view media.
Ah well. It was great while it lasted.
