Courtesy Louis Platini's Metaverse Business, a Second Life/OpenSim analytics company that gathers publicly accessible in-world data for its clients, here's the top 50 most popular sims in Second Life for January 2012, listed according their average visitor count, the unique visitor range at any given period, and the sim's rank the previous month. Here's the top 25:

The SL map guide now has a search function, which you can use to search any of these sims and directly teleport. Two new, oddly-named sims, QMRNA and KSA QJqJI pJLC, appear to be for Arab-speaking SLers. (Sim names maybe indicate trouble translating Arabic to Romance characters?) Indeed, SL's anonymous, bot-obsessed blogger "Little Lost Linden" claims that QMRNA is full of bots with Arab names. Me, I'm hoping for the day when the porn sims are mostly inhabited by bots servicing each other, in an endless feedback loop of virtual desire which fails to reach any real world closure.

Anyway, see top sims 25 through 50 after the break: