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Someone did an analysis of a week’s use on the old ecademy just as Lyndon Wood was taking over. Turned out there were only 166 active users in a one week period. Very far from the hundreds of thousands claimed by the previous management.
In a week, Ecademy had 166 active users posting blogs or commenting.
167 blogs were posted, by 72 people.
There were 1078 comments made on those blogs.
130 of those comments (12%) were made by 1 person – Robert Craven.
Another 61 comments (5.6%) were made by another – William Buist.
72 people started blogs. (0.01% of users)
96 of the 167 blogs (57%) were posted by just 16 people.
11 of the 167 blogs (6.6%) were posted by one person, Suzy “find a model” O’Connor.
In other words, it was pretty much dead, and that is the true position that SunZu is starting from.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag80YS9LvhU0dE9UalBMOVBlTzdsSFlxYy1TazU2NHc#gid=0
I guess its a good thing Lyndon stepped up and saved it.
I suppose that’s one way of looking at it. It’s interesting to see how much Lyndon paid for a dead platform. Looks like he was taken in by the highly inflated usage figures spouted by the previous management.
I hope he is chasing them for what looks like a serious case of miss selling.
So what. He obviously finds value in its database and is investing full on to maximize it. Given what I’ve seen him do with Sunzu its pretty amazing and given his other online success’ looks like this may also be one. Who cares about the past. The future looks pretty bright.
“The future looks pretty bright.”
Not really. SunZu launched to the public this week and it looks like activity has actually gone down. Time to take off the rose-tinted spectacles and look at the reality.
We’ve done some analysis of activity on Sunzu.
It covers the date range from the official launch on 6th March 2013, until 29th April 2013, a period of 55 days inclusive. It only covers the “Articles” section of the site, not the “Social Blogs”.
167 Active users.
345 Articles – Average 6.27 per day.
1,043 Comments – Average 18.96 per day.
1,388 Total Activity (Articles + Comments) – 25.24 per day.
Articles and comments by people who posted 10 or more times during those 55 days (32 people) – 1,054.
That’s 75.14% of the content created by 19.16% of users.
72 users (43.11%) have only posted one article or comment.
One person is responsible for 7.49% of total activity, despite being 0.599 of active users (or 0.0002% of the claimed 500,000+ members).
The top 14 contributors (8.38%) are responsible for over 50% of the activity.
If there are 500,000 accounts, most of them are dormant. 167 users (0.03%) active over those 55 days.