The Total Residents figure on the Second Life homepage, and in Linden Lab's published statistical data feeds has been frozen now, for 37 hours, as of the time of this writing; Essentially stuck on 6,240,591. There's no clear sign as to what is wrong.

We contacted three Linden staffers to find out what was wrong with it. One thought the feed updated daily, and that data warehousing issues were delaying that update slightly. Of course, it has been updated at the top of the hour for quite some time now...until yesterday morning. At Meta Linden's office hours at 10am, we were able to bring it to the attention of Meta and Zee Linden, who said they would look into it.

As yet there is no sign of the figure being updated. A bug? An intentional behavior change? Or an intentional behavior change that has turned out to have a bug in it? With the media hungrily watching those front-page figures, what does that do to the perception of the Second Life grid and it's growth?
At this rate midnight's roundup of the day's signups isn't going to be terribly interesting or useful, I must say.