Tumblr is now “pushing more than 20 billion page views a month” said CEO David Karp at GigaOM’s Roadmap 2012 conference. With over 80 million blogs and tens of millions of users, the platform has grown popular for sharing pictures, stories and memes without losing its “intimate, community feel.” Read →
LinkedIn just topped 187 million active users and is outperforming Wall Street’s expectations, according to the company’s Q3 2012 Earnings Report. Steve Sordello wrote on the LinkedIn blog: “The last few months mark the most significant period of product development in the company’s history. This accelerated pace of innovation is fundamental to our goal of driving greater engagement on the LinkedIn platform.” Read →
This week marked big milestones for both Facebook and Foursquare, with user numbers growing to over 1 billion and 25 million, respectively. Check out more new stats for both platforms, and this week’s #RLTM Scoreboard. Read →
This week, Google Senior Vice President, Engineering Vic Gundotra announced that 400 million Google users have now upgraded to Google+. Of those, 100 million are “monthly active users” on Google+. In other words, one-fourth of users who make the upgrade become a regular user of the service. Read →
Instagram now has over 100 million users, according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this past Tuesday. “It just crossed 100 million users,” he said. “They’re killing it.” Read →
Twitter takes the lead in US mobile advertising revenues in 2012, according to the latest eMarketer forecast. But by next year, Facebook will beat out Twitter “by a significant margin.” Both companies earn significantly less mobile revenue than those with more established mobile platforms, like Google and Pandora. Read →
Latin America will see an 18.5% increase in social networking users this year. While this number is slightly below the worldwide average in growth, there is plenty of room for social networking to grow in the region, according to the latest eMarketer estimates. By 2013, one-third of the Latin American population will use social networks. Read →
More than half of social media users in the U.S. are between 25 and 44 years old, but there are considerable differences – of average age and gender – among individual sites, based on recent research by Pingdom. Read →
LinkedIn is the most important social network for B2B marketers, according to new research by BtoB. See which other social platforms are popular among B2B marketers, and what common obstacles companies face regarding social media adoption. Then check out this week’s #RLTM Scoreboard. Read →
Twitter users are 33X more active than Google+ users, according to a new study by social media research firm Umpf. While Google+ claims 170 million users (second only to Facebook), very few of them are active — sharing is 7X higher on Facebook and 2.5X higher on LinkedIn. Also check out the #RLTM Scoreboard. Read →
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