The U.S. is easily in the lead with 152.2 million Facebook users, but Indonesia now comes in 2nd with 35.2 million users, and “more than half of the country’s online population participates on social networking sites” as reported by eMarketer. See the list of top ten countries by number of Facebook members. Read →
Candytech, a Czech company that creates and measures Facebook marketing campaigns, has put together an infographic to show Facebook’s growth and population through 2010. The data is from Candytech’s statistics portal, SocialBakers, as reported via TechCrunch. Here are some highlights: Read →
Consumer research company TNS has released “Digital Life,” the “world’s largest study into consumers’ digital behaviours and attitudes ever conducted.” It’s based on a September 2010 study of online behaviour and perspectives in 46 countries.* Developing/rapid-growth markets are the most avid users of social networks. The study found that social networking has become a mainstream activity [...] Read →
Paris-based monitoring company Semiocast has released the results of an analysis of 2.9 million messages gathered over a period of 24 hours, on June 22nd, 2010. Statistics were obtained by processing user-declared locations with Semiocast’s semantic multilingual tools, as very few tweets are actually geotagged (0.6% compared to 0.5% three months ago). According to the Semiocast [...] Read →
Paris-based Semiocast has performed a semantic and quantitative study of 2.8 million tweets. The company found that roughly half the tweets posted on the micro-sharing service are in English, down 25% from last year. The top 5 languages used on Twitter are English, Japanese, Portuguese, Malay and Spanish. Japanese comes in second with 14% of messages, followed by Portuguese [...] Read →
Sysomos has updated their analysis of tweets by geography, and has found that the use of Twitter is becoming more widely distributed around the world. The company also found that almost no one is using the geo-location API tool that Twitter launched last August, with only 0.23% of all Tweets tagged with geo-location. Among the most significant [...] Read →
As Facebook reached 350 million users worldwide, its largest single source of growth in December 2009 was still the U.S. Inside Facebook reported that the US gain of more than 4.5 million monthly active Facebook users was the highest number of any country. Because of the large installed base of US Facebook users, it represented [...] Read →
