Is the Bitcoin network slowly closing down? Consider the following graph: 

This chart shows the total number of hosts on the network that were connected in the previous 24 hour period. We collect this by listening to Address messages that are broadcast over the network and I got it from bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk. This graph and a number of other graphs on that site show significant reduction in the number of hosts on the network.

Does this mean that the Bitcoin network is slowly closing down? I can see that the graph seems to be quite level at the end, but the trend seems to be downwards. 

Thank you jim618 for providing me with the link in this answer.
It could be that this host specifically is getting less connections, although that might not be the case.

There has been a similar drop in hashing power and stock price. The most likely cause of this is the lack of press-attention and a low amount of things you can do with Bitcoins. Another possible explanation is the increased usage of online-wallets reducing the need for locally running clients and therefore the total number of hosts connected.

Overall, no need to worry about the Bitcoin network closing down. In fact it seems to be about to grow faster again.

Some backing for my claims is here:
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/

Although it's hard to say anything from these charts