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June 13, 2009

I wanted to see the rate at which people registered usernames for nice facebook links, which started at midnight last night, as I was told by Zach last night at about 1am. The numbers gathered would have been better had I started at 12am, and had my internet not crapped out in the middle. Nevertheless, here are some numbers from 1:11am until 1:44am.

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The line shows the accumulated number of registrations using names taken from the 1000 (really about 1200) most common American first names taken from here; and since the Integer never lies, I'm taking this to be a hard fact. The bars show the number of usernames registered on or around that minute -- i.e. for a position xx, that is showing data for minute 1:xx AM. Hence, for a name name, the URL used would be http://facebook.com/name...luckily no one took mine: mine. There were a bunch I was tempted for, such as sony, nbc, etc..., but I'm partial to potatos.

In other news, I spent about an hour last night giving away donuts on the lower east side, which sparked an idea to come later.

Posted by jeff at June 13, 2009 09:30 AM