Over the past year, Twitter.com’s audience grew by 46 million unique visitors across the world, and in October the site drew 104.6 million visitors (an increase of 79.4% from last year). However, only 6 million of these new users were in the U.S. Read →
Facebook has updated its official statistics page with new numbers that show big increases in users engaging on external sites. First, the latest on-site stats–these have not changed from the last time the site updated this page in October. Facebook now claims: Read →
Facebook has updated its official company Statistics page, and Inside Facebook has posted an analysis of how the changes compare to the June and February updates. The changes indicate that the level of activity and engagement of Facebook users continues to grow: Read →
New data from comScore shows that, for the first time, U.S. internet users spent more time on Facebook this August–a total of 41.1 billion minutes–than on any other major site. Google was second with 39.8 billion minutes and Yahoo fell to third, with 37.7 billion. In terms of traffic, Yahoo edged out Google in August to [...] Read →
comScore, Inc. has released a global report on women’s online usage titled “Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet,” which provides an analysis of the female Internet user, highlighting key trends by Internet activity, worldwide region and digital channel. The report found that social networking sites reach a higher percentage of women than [...] Read →
Nielsen has released its March 2010 analysis of social network usage. The company found that Facebook and Twitter posted significant year-over-year gains in user activity–a 69% increase for Facebook and a 45% increase for Twitter–in the U.S. Global traffic to social networking sites totaled 313,690 million visitors. The total minutes spent on social networks monthly saw [...] Read →
According to The Nielsen Company, global consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. Social networks and blogs are the most popular online [...] Read →
According to The Nielsen Company, global consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. Globally, social networks and blogs are the most popular [...] Read →
