The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has released the first-ever report that exclusively examines Twitter users. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews of U.S. adults conducted from November 3-24, 2010. According to the report, 8% of American adult internet users are Twitter users, and 2% say [...] Read →
LinkedIn has announced that it has reached 50 million users. Highlighting its continuing growth, the company noted that it took almost a year and four months to notch its first million users after launching in 2003, but only 12 days to add its last million. The company also said that about 1/2 of its users [...] Read →
The Harvard Business School team of Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, associate professor of business strategy, and Bill Heil, a 2009 MBA, are in the midst of mining social network data and shared some early results at Media Tech Summit. Their research showed gender differences in Twitter and Facebook behavior, and geographic differences in US usage of various [...] Read →