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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.
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…
