Linden Lab released the 3rd quarter virtual economy statistics. Highlights include a 54% increase in total transactions, and an increase of 27% in voice usage. Total user hours and peak concurrency was down. Linden Lab attributed this to a crackdown on bot usage. Trading volume on the LindeX was flat.

New aquisition Xstreet SL reached an all time high gross sale of $1.6 million USD which is a 13% increase.

Median concurrent users is down from 61,000 to 54,000 but a high point of 77,367 was reached.

International usage of Second Life continues to increase with the United States of America now accounting for only 37% of user transactions and 41% of user hours.

Stability and downtime have been holding steady.

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