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940 Million Social Network Users Worldwide
Social networks around the world 2010
European research and consulting firm InSites Consulting has released a detailed report based on a global study of 2,800 internet users. The full report provides fascinating insights into social networking preferences and behaviors around the world, so we are embedding it above.
InSites has a blog post summarizing key findings here.
Some of our favorite stats: …more…
Top 5 languages on Twitter are English, Japanese, Portuguese, Malay and Spanish
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 with 9% of all messages. Malay languages, including Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia, now represent the fourth most used language on Twitter, with 6% of messages. Spanish comes in fifth with 4% of all messages. The ranks six to eight are occupied by major European languages, namely Italian, Dutch and German, each accounting for about 1% to 2% of total messages. French represents a little less than 1% of total messages.
Time Spent On Social Networking Sites Increased 82% In Last Year
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 category when ranked by average time spent in December, followed by online games and instant messaging.
Facebook was the No. 1 global social networking destination in December 2009; 67% of global social media users visited the site during the month, spending nearly six hours per month on the site. Twitter.com continued as the fastest-growing in December 2009 in terms of unique visitors, increasing 579% year-over-year, from 2.7 million unique visitors in December 2008 to 18.1 million in December 2009.
Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up 82% Year over Year
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 online category when ranked by average time spent in December, followed by online games and instant messaging. With 206.9 million unique visitors, Facebook was the No. 1 global social networking destination in December 2009. …more…
Twitter Becoming More Global; Surge in Usage in Brazil, Indonesia, Germany
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 differences was a surge in Brazil, which accounted for 8.8% of unique users, an increase of more than four-fold from 2% in June. Twitter users in Indonesia accounted for 2.4% of the population, compared with less than 0.5%, while Twitter users in Germany rose to 2.5% from 1.5%. …more…
Young Americans Fuel Recent Facebook Growth
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 a 5% gain, compared with 10% growth in countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia. This puts Facebook’s U.S. monthly active user audience over the 100 million mark. …more…
Global social media adoption
TrendStream, who publishes the Global Web Index, has created a visualization that shows the penetration of different social technologies in major markets around the globe. The research is based on …more…
