Ofcom, the British communications regulator, has released their annual Children’s Media Literacy Audit, which provides an overview of media literacy among children and young people and their parents and carers. The March 2010 report found that a quarter of U.K. children aged 8-12 who use the internet at home say they have a profile on Facebook, Bebo or [...] Read →
Royal Pingdom has used Google Adplanner U.S. data for 19 different social network sites, and analyzed the data for age demographics. The analysis showed that the average social network user is 37 years old. LinkedIn has the highest average user age of 44, while Bebo has the youngest, 28. The majority of 64% of Twitter users and [...] Read →
Silicon Alley Insider’s Chart of the Week, created by pingdom.com and based on data from Google Ad Planner, shows that the average Facebook user views 662 pages a month. Next-most-sticky is Hi5, with an average of 351 pages a month, followed by MySpace, at 261 views per visitor per month. Read →
Research by Royal Pingdom confirms the trend. It shows that most of the networks that could be considered to be ’social’ in the real sense of the word – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Bebo have a user base that’s 50%+ female. Networks that are arguably much more functional in the sense that you save or [...] Read →
Hitwise stats show not just the rise in popularity of Twitter.com, which began in October – but also MySpace’s precipitous decline. Hitwise now puts Twitter #4 in Hitwise’s social networking category on share of visits, behind Facebook, YouTube and Bebo. Chart at PaidContent. Read →
A message went up on Bebo’s blog today, announcing that they, too, will be attempting to convince users to port the rest of their web activity to the Bebo platform. Bebo says: “We wanted to make your life online easier by bringing all of the things you care about to one place. The top part [...] Read →
Forrester Analyst Jeremiah Owyang wrote a post collecting social networking stats over at his Web Strategy blog, and it has become a pretty good collection of the latest-available statistics on social media traffic and usage patterns. I’d recommend checking out the full post, in which he details all of his sources and also links to [...] Read →