This is a follow up to my recent article on app.net users. In the last 10 days the number of users has grown from 2080 to about 11100. At the end of deadline there were 12303 people pleading $ 802.250. So nearly all of the initial supporters should have an account on alpha.app.net now.
Following
The mean of following users went up from 12 to 17. 50% of the users only followed 7 other users or less. Thats just a little more than 10 days ago. User kuhcoon has been topped by user boa in following the most other users (1975).
count 11082.000000
mean 17.063256
std 40.472733
min 0.000000
25% 1.000000
50% 7.000000
75% 19.000000
max 1975.000000
following followers
boa 1975 347
kuhcoon 1069 137
braynard 1037 140
carrie_kane 826 293
sheree 745 166
cameron 720 530
jeffio 623 122
icraigt 588 270
gyrofly 513 50
teawithcarl 460 273
Followers
What's more interesting is the number of followers each user has. The mean went up from 12 to 17 followers, but the 50% quorum stayed the same at 2 followers. That means half of the users on alpha.app.net have only 2 or less followers and even 75% have just 8 or less followers.
count 11082.000000
mean 17.077513
std 102.424883
min 0.000000
25% 1.000000
50% 2.000000
75% 8.000000
max 4465.000000
The founder of app.net @dalton has been topped by John Gruber (@gruber) with the most followers.
following followers
gruber 74 4465
dalton 360 4450
marco 65 3650
siracusa 46 3001
dan 20 2014
stephenfry 4 1804
mattgemmell 81 1801
chockenberry 59 1570
jsnell 68 1398
joshuatopolsky 17 1388
So even in this alpha phase there is a very uneven distribution of the following structure. There are 300 users with more than 100 followers. That's about 2.7%.
If I'll find the time I'll do some cliques analysis on the weekend. An other analysis I'd like to do is to measure the number of messages between the users. I'll hope to get some data soon. Until than you can have a look at the nice site appnetstats.com from user @clint.
The raw data is avaliable on github.com/hoffmann/appnetstats.