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20+ Mind-blowing Social Media Statistics Revisited →
The way we communicate online has gone through a sea-change over last few years – Infact, majority of netizens spend most of their time on social media / networking sites. Twitter has been a rage over past 1 year, Facebook has become one of the most visited sites on the web, Professionals are flocking Linkedin and keep their profiles updated. Do you want to know the numbers behind these uber-popular social media sites?
It’s around six months since EConsultancy last threw out some truly mindboggling pieces of data surrounding social media. So, what’s happened between then and now?
If six months ago, it wasn’t a compelling case to consider social media in the marketing mix, then this hopefully might change your mind…
- Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours… A considerable increase from the previous 120m.
- Twitter now has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis. It’s still a fair increase from the estimated 6-10m global users from a few months ago.
- LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide. This means an increase of around 1m members month-on-month since July/August last year.
- Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis. Six months ago, this was 250m… meaning around a 40% increase of users in less than half a year.
- Flickr now hosts more than 4bn images. A massive jump from the previous 3.6bn I wrote about.
- More than 35m Facebook users update their status each day. This is 5m more than towards the end of July, 2009.
- Wikipedia currently has in excess of 14m articles, meaning that it’s 85,000 contributors have written nearly a million new posts in six months.
- Photo uploads to Facebook have increased by more than 100%. Currently, there are around 2.5bn uploads to the site each month – this was around a billion last time I covered this.
- There are more than 70 translations available on Facebook. Last time around, this was only 50.
- Back in 2009, the average user had 120 friends within Facebook. This is now around 130.
- Mobile is even bigger than before for Facebook, with more than 65m users accessing the site through mobile-based devices. In six months, this is over 100% increase. (Previously 30m). As before, it’s no secret that users who access Facebook through mobile devices are almost 50% more active than those who don’t.
- There are more than 3.5bn pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, etc.) shared each week on Facebook.
- There are now 11m LinkedIn users across Europe.
- Towards the end of last year, the average number of tweets per day was over 27.3 million.
- The average number of tweets per hour was around 1.3m.
- More than 700,000 local businesses have active Pages on Facebook.
- Purpose-built Facebook pages have created more than 5.3bn fans.
- 15% of bloggers spend 10 or more hours each week blogging, according to Technorati’s new State of the Blogosphere.
- At the current rate, Twitter will process almost 10bn tweets in a single year.
- About 70% of Facebook users are outside the USA.
- India is currently the fastest-growing country to use LinkedIn, with around 3m total users.
- More than 250 Facebook applications have over a million combined users each month.
- 70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog.
- 38% of bloggers post brand or product reviews.
- More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since December 2008 and more than 60m Facebook users engage with it across these external sites each month.
- Leveraging Social Media To Benefit Your Business: A Social Media Strategy Superlist
- If You Printed Twitter
- Internet 2009 in numbers
- Did You Know 4.0
- Ghost Tweeters
- Social Media ROI: Socialnomics
- When all Else Fails
- More Truth About Twitter
- Practical Insight For Your Social Marketing Campaign
- How A Spare Computer Became Twitpic, A $1.5+ Million A Year Twitter Success Story
- 10 superb social media presentations
- A Complete List of Verified Twitter Accounts
- Chris Brogan: “The Serendipity Engine”
Voice On The Line →
The era of nuclear anxiety, the Red scare, and covert CIA plots forever changed the way we engage with the telephone. Voice on the Line is an animated, experimental social commentary that explores the ideas of the Cold War and ungrounded paranoia.
Check out more short films from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival now playing in the YouTube Screening Room.
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Apple iPad →
Apple’s iPad announcement earlier this afternoon prompted a score of WTFing across the internet, prompting many to ask, “Are there any women on Apple’s marketing team?” Answer: Apparently not. (Period.)
From Twitter (for what it’s worth, #iTampon is apparently the number three one trending topic on the site.):
tjakabon: “It surfs the web AND stops the bleeding.”
Gelatobaby: And you can use the giant QWERTY keyboard to get your period on the #iPad!
CarolBlymire: Is #apple making an iPad for light-flow days? Just wondering…
Trish1981: iPad? Really? All I can say is, I’m sticking with Always, bitches.
tremendousnews: So I can say “That chick is on her iPad” and not be called a pig? Thank you Apple.
melissapierce: iPad has changed “the conversation” from how we use tech in context to how we use tech as Kotex. (who named this thing?)
TwittsMcGee: I haven’t heard this many period jokes since I was forced to watch The View last month. #iPad
kathycacace: Okay, just one more. The iPad: protecting your data from embarrassing incidents.
Johnpapa: “64 gig iPad will forever be known as the heavy flow model.”
From the comments section of “Period Pieces”:
lady_justice: Did the prototype come with a belt?
Lymed: Does the Period Tracker app come free?
fauxfruit: If I order this, will my boyfriend and I have to worry if it comes late?
andBegorrah: If you and your friends all buy one, will they sync up?
boston_nj: Meh. I’ll wait until they come out with the iDivaCup
morninggloria: Don’t wear white jeans while using an iPad, and especially don’t use an iPad in front of your crush. You’re a teen magazine embarrassing moment waiting to happen.
ms negative the easy-going unicorn: someone needs to make a ‘mysterious blue liquid stain on white’ wallpaper for this.
LilSpitfire: Later in the year they will be releasing the companion tablet pen, the Ipon.
Vesuvius At Home (I believe in peace, bitch): But what if the cute boys see me shopping for one? What if my dad has to take me??
NellMood: It’s so beautiful when an electronics company finally becomes a woman…
Cinnamoncanuck: @NellMood: Aunt Flo will be so happy! Reply
soykatrina: Eh, I prefer the CVS brand. A few bucks less but does the same thing…
vlvtjones: So will iffy Wifi coverage be called iSpotting?
morninggloria: Can I get a scented iPad for when my data feels not-so-fresh?
Mary McCarthyite: Everyone, just try to Stay(free) calm and Poise(d). It’s Always nice to see a new product on the market. I Depend on Apple to come up with great ideas. Maybe we’re taking this out of Kotex.
Lymed: Somebody give the iPad a Red Bull, because it ain’t no good without wings.
andBegorrah: Are you there, God? It’s me, Marketing.
NellMood: iPads are for 8th graders. I’m waiting for the iTampon, because I prefer to do all my interneting from inside my vagina.
BicSharpie: Hopefully it will help people deal with the 24-hour news cycle.
- 8 Reasons Women Should Be Excited For Apple’s “iPad”
- Apple’s iPad Name Not the First Choice for Women. Period.
Well, this bodes poorly. Ahead of “Apple,” “Steve Jobs” and “Apple’s iPad” on Twitter’s worldwide trending topics rankings sits iTampon. Well done, internet! You’ve just made some marketing executive very sad and/or fired.
Obvious Joke of the Day: Fine. Here. Go nuts.
Google Voice now available on iPhone
Google Voice web interface now allows users to send text messages to multiple recipients. To send multi-recipient SMS, just click the SMS button, start typing in recipients in the Gmail-style auto-complete box, and send away. Nothing much to it beyond that, but it’s a great—and much-requested—feature addition.
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Covering The Tablet: →
Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveil the revolutionary new iPad. See the video-on-demand event right here.
Device Price
Wifi Only Models : 16GB for $500 / 32GB for $600 / 64GB $700
Add $130 to each model if you want 3G
AT&T 3G Data Plan Price
Plan 1 : Unlimited data : $30 per month, no contract, cancel at any time with no penalty, use AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots for free.
Plan 2 : $15 for 250MB of data. Activate directly on iPad.
- Tweetmeme
- Hottest Apple iPad Tweets
- Live Apple iPad Tweets
- Robert Scoble Favorites
- gdgt Liveblog
- Gizmodo Liveblog
- Ubergizmo Liveblog
- Mac Rumors Forums Twitter
- TechCrunch
- Engadget
- Mashable
- Apple iPad: Everything You Need to Know. See Also: Hands on.
Official Apple iPad demo. This really tells the story better than anything I have seen so far. If you need to look at one thing to understand what the iPad is, this is it.
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I Remember Andrea - High School Reunion Prank →
Comedy writer Andrea Wachner hated the idea of going to her 10-year high school reunion so much that she hired a stripper to go instead, and what followed, she says, was a comical study in human nature.
'Pants on the Ground' ripoff: Detroit's Green Brothers say they were first in 1996 →
The Green Brothers version, 1996:
General Larry Platt’s version, 2010:
I can’t believe no one else picked up on this story earlier…ever since American Idol, everyone I know has been screaming that this Platt phony stole that song from Detroit’s…nay, the WORLD’s greatest hip hop act ever, the Green Brothers.
Everyone in the tri-county Metro Detroit area remembers the summer of 1996 as the summer of “Back Pockets On The Floor.” You couldn’t go anywhere without hearing it; the Hudson’s fireworks were synchronized with this grade A prime slice of Detroit funk. The Electrifying Mojo came back to the radio just to spin this one. It was said that the only time television legend Bill Bonds cried was when he heard this song the first time.
Personally, I remember this tune as one of the most positive songs ever recorded. So much good came from this, both for the city of Detroit and the Green Brothers themselves. For several years prior to the release of “Back Pockets,” the Green Brothers were among the most socially-irresponsible gangsta rap groups ever to emerge from Highland Park. After the death of the original Green Brother lyricist Malice, the band spent 3 years or so in a turmoil trying to distance themselves from their previous wicked ways and criminal lifestyle. “Back Pockets” was their Amazing Grace, their repudiation of the negativity of drugs and the gang lifestyle.
We, as Detroiters, are forever in debt to the Green Brothers for ending crime in our utopian city.
Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No →
In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter. In the past few years weve heard all too much about performance enhancing drugs from greenies to tetrahydrogestrinone, and not enough about performance inhibiting drugs. If our evaluation of the records of athletes like Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Marion Jones, and Barry Bonds needs to be revised downwards with an asterisk, we submit that that Dock Ellis record deserves a giant exclamation point. Of the 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, we can only guess how many were aided by steroids, but we can say without question that only one was ever thrown on acid.
Sadly, the great Dock Ellis died last December at 63. A year before, radio producers Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel, had recorded an interview with Ellis in which the former Pirate right hander gave a moment by moment account of June 12, 1970, the day he no-hit the San Diego Padres. Alexander and Ilels original four minute piece appeared March 29, 2008 on NPRs Weekend America. When we stumbled across that piece this past June, Blagden and Isenberg were inspired to create a short animated film around the original audio.
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