SceneCaster hits a milestone

The Facebook version of SceneCaster has hit a milestone — it was the “most active app” a few days ago. Now, Facebook defines “most active” as what I would tend to call daily tie ratio; meaning, they are ranking apps based on what percentage of those who have it used it that day, and not total users. In SceneCaster’s case, it was a highly respectable 80%. (I just checked and today they are down around 16%).

Total usage for SceneCaster is around 21,000, based on that 16% figure, which is a far cry from being a mainstream app on Facebook (the top apps have multiple millions of active users, and some get tie ratios above 20%, such as Super Wall or Scrabulous). But it’s still an interesting stats, because it shows that a mostly non-interactive “virtual world” app can garner an audience that seems interested.

Virtual Worlds News has an interview with some interesting tidbits.

“Our philosophy going into this was very different from your traditional virtual world philosophy,” explained Zhoar. “We looked at how people are interacting, and it’s all asynchronous. People come in and leave a message on your wall, and we’ve tied into that with this application that gives them a great capability to express themselves on the Web through these highly immersive experiences and then publish them.”