Twitter has 106m registered users

"[Twitter] has 106 million registered users who write 55 million posts a day.
Seventy-five percent of that traffic comes from outside Twitter, using third-party applications, like TweetDeck.
The site gets 180 million visits a month."
Source: Figures revealed by Biz Stone at the Chirp confernce, reported by New York Times, 14th April 2010

Next Generation Media Quarterly - April 2010

Here is this quarter's presentation on Next Generation Media, part of a series that I started to produce in 2009.

Next Generation Media Quarterly - April 2010

View more presentations from Dan Calladine.

The lastest presentation looks at some key stats that regular readers will recognise, like the fact that a typical social gamer is a 43 year old woman, twitter is over 30 times as popular now as in 2008, and that teens in the US text ten time an hour.

There are also creative and site examples, for example twitter's new Promoted Tweets, plus the sites Fiverr and Please Rob Me, and some case studies on effectiveness.

The presentation is available for download - just use the link in Slideshare at the top of the presentation to get the pdf.

The previous two presentations can be found here

Songwriter payments from digital sources

To earn the US minimum wage of $1,160 per month, artists would need to sell:
143 self-pressed CDs at $9.99 each
1,161 album downloads from Napster or iTunes at $9.99 each
12,399 track downloads from Amazon or iTunes at $0.99 each
849,817 track plays on Rhapsody
1,546,667 track plays on last.fm
4,549,020 track plays per month on Spotify
Source: Data from InformationisBeautiful.net (presented on a brilliant visualisation) - full data in spreadsheet here

89% of Chatroulette users are male

"For more than two weeks earlier this spring, RJMetrics compiled detailed data on 2,883 Chatroulette sessions that tied users to things like geography, gender and appearance. The data showed 89 percent of users were male and 11 percent were female. (Users are more likely to come across a Webcam featuring no one than to find a female alone.) Some 8 percent of spins showed multiple people; one in three females used Chatroulette as part of a group versus one in 12 for males. As for the perv factor, one in eight spins came up with something R-rated."
Source: RJMetrics, reported in Adweek, 12th April 2010

27% of Google's revenue is profit

"[H]ow much of the revenue becomes profit. Here are the numbers for 2009:
Microsoft: 27.7%
Apple: 17.8%
Google: 27.6%
Google and Microsoft are really close here, at just under 28%. Apple with its 17.8% lags behind, but it’s getting better. Go back just five years (to 2004) and Apple’s profit was just 5.2% of its revenue.
Microsoft is quite impressive in that through all the years it’s never gone below 20%. Ok, one exception: in 1985, Microsoft’s profit was “only” 18.8% of the revenue. On the other hand, it’s also gone as high as 40.4% (in 2000)."
Source: Officially reported financial data, collated by Royal Pingdom, 9th April 2010

4.5 Billion apps have been downloaded from the Apple App store - 1.5 billion in 3 months

"To date, there have been 4.5 billion application downloads from the App Store."
Source: Apple press event, reported by The Examiner, 8th April 2010
Previously - 3 billion downloaded (5th Jan 2010) 2 billion downloaded (28th September), 1 billion downloaded (24th April 2009)

More than 4 billion apps have been downloaded from the Apple App store

"Today, more than four billion apps have been downloaded from the revolutionary App Store and more than 185,000 apps are available to consumers in 90 countries. Over 85 million iPhone and iPod touch users around the world can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. "
Source: Apple press release, 8th April 2010
Previously - 3 billion downloaded (5th Jan 2010) 2 billion downloaded (28th September), 1 billion downloaded (24th April 2009)
UPDATE - Apple now say that 4.5 billion have been downloaded