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Women dominate the more social social networks
Research by Royal Pingdom confirms the trend. It shows that most of the networks that could be considered to be ’social’ in the real sense of the word – Facebook, …more…
Pew Study: U.S. use of social media continues to grow
According to Pew Internet Project’s September 2009 survey data, 19% of Americans tweet or use social networks to gain updates or inform others about what they are doing, up from 11% in 2008. 37% of …more…
HBS study: gender, geography and social media behaviors
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 …more…
What women want from social sites
Women who are core social network users were surveyed in “The Power of Social Networking For Women Research Study” from female-oriented social networking site ShesConnected. Respondents were heavy users of …more…
Reasons that US internet users use Twitter
According to the “Consumer Internet Barometer” from TNS and The Conference Board, 41.6% percent of Internet users who used Twitter did so to keep in touch with their friends. In addition, 29.1% …more…
Twitter Hype Punctured by Study
BBC story based on Harvard study of 300,542 users in May 2009, which shows that 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content. The study also looked at gender differences, noting …more…
