"Want to know how popular Facebook likes are? According to new statistics we’ve collected [...] just under 65 million Facebook users are liking things on a daily basis through Facebook. This is according to self-reported statistics from Facebook which until now have not been published. While more than 20 million users interact with Facebook for iPhone, this is currently the most active interaction on Facebook."
Source: Estimates by AllFacebook, 7th July 2010
Note - I don't normally list estimates; if Facebook reveal real figures I'll replace these.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Twitter supports 800m search queries a day (misleading stats!)
"Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an “information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24 billion queries a month. The last time the company reported daily search volumes was back in April at its inaugural developer conference, Chirp, when it said it was supporting 600 million queries a day.
It’s hard to compare Twitter’s monthly query volume to that of Microsoft’s Bing or Yahoo, since worldwide figures for their traffic are fairly old. Comscore reported that Bing was supporting 4.1 billion monthly queries worldwide while Yahoo was handling 9.4 billion in December."
Source: Biz Stone of Twitter, reported by VentureBeat, 6th July 2010
Note - I think the wording 'supporting 800m queries a day' suggests that these include the 'live' results within Google and other search engines, and not just searches within twitter.
Update - these figures are misleading, as they include automated scrapes from apps like Tweetdeck:
"By the week's end it was dismissed. Twitter's search query numbers aren't as impressive as they sound, according to Nicholas Carlson at the Business Insider, namely for this reason: "Twitter's search query numbers include "searches" from Twitter apps such as TweetDeck and Seesmic that are actually just automated calls those apps send out every few minutes to populate columns users have set up to see tweets on certain topics."
As for suggestions that Twitter is now the top search engine: one's a network, the other's a news publisher - this is not comparing like with like, is how Paid Content put it. "In the same way, one can't group Twitter together with web search services and proclaim: "Twitter has taken the title." Sure, both such services have a search function, but each indexes a very different kind of material - one, rapid-fire conversations and news updates; the other, deeper, more static and longer-lasting information.""
Source: Marketing Vox, 9th July 2010
That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an “information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24 billion queries a month. The last time the company reported daily search volumes was back in April at its inaugural developer conference, Chirp, when it said it was supporting 600 million queries a day.
It’s hard to compare Twitter’s monthly query volume to that of Microsoft’s Bing or Yahoo, since worldwide figures for their traffic are fairly old. Comscore reported that Bing was supporting 4.1 billion monthly queries worldwide while Yahoo was handling 9.4 billion in December."
Source: Biz Stone of Twitter, reported by VentureBeat, 6th July 2010
Note - I think the wording 'supporting 800m queries a day' suggests that these include the 'live' results within Google and other search engines, and not just searches within twitter.
Update - these figures are misleading, as they include automated scrapes from apps like Tweetdeck:
"By the week's end it was dismissed. Twitter's search query numbers aren't as impressive as they sound, according to Nicholas Carlson at the Business Insider, namely for this reason: "Twitter's search query numbers include "searches" from Twitter apps such as TweetDeck and Seesmic that are actually just automated calls those apps send out every few minutes to populate columns users have set up to see tweets on certain topics."
As for suggestions that Twitter is now the top search engine: one's a network, the other's a news publisher - this is not comparing like with like, is how Paid Content put it. "In the same way, one can't group Twitter together with web search services and proclaim: "Twitter has taken the title." Sure, both such services have a search function, but each indexes a very different kind of material - one, rapid-fire conversations and news updates; the other, deeper, more static and longer-lasting information.""
Source: Marketing Vox, 9th July 2010
34% of American women aged 18-34 say checking Facebook is the first thing they do when they wake up
"Today’s tech savvy woman 18-34 has a fixed dependence to social media networks. An overwhelming majority (57%) admit to talking to people online more than face-to-face, while 34% say checking Facebook is the first thing they do when waking up in the morning – that includes brushing one’s teeth or using the bathroom. Even more surprising is the 26% who get up in the middle of the night to read text messages and the 21% who confessed to checking Facebook during the night.
More than one third (39%) are self proclaimed Facebook addicts; 37% have fallen asleep with their PDA in their hands; 84% believe its okay to update your status more than once a day; and 78% think it's okay to check someone else’s Facebook profile more than once a day; 19% say they have gotten into fights with loved ones about how much time they spend with their PDAs/cell phones and 31% feel more confident about their online persona than in their real lives.
- 34% women 18-34 say checking Facebook is the first thing they do when waking up in the morning
- 26% women 18-34 get up in the middle of the night to read text messages
- 37% women 18-34 have fallen asleep with their PDA in their hands"
Source: Research conducted for The Oxygen Media Insights Group by Lightspeed Research, reported by RBR.com, 6th July 2010
More than one third (39%) are self proclaimed Facebook addicts; 37% have fallen asleep with their PDA in their hands; 84% believe its okay to update your status more than once a day; and 78% think it's okay to check someone else’s Facebook profile more than once a day; 19% say they have gotten into fights with loved ones about how much time they spend with their PDAs/cell phones and 31% feel more confident about their online persona than in their real lives.
- 34% women 18-34 say checking Facebook is the first thing they do when waking up in the morning
- 26% women 18-34 get up in the middle of the night to read text messages
- 37% women 18-34 have fallen asleep with their PDA in their hands"
Source: Research conducted for The Oxygen Media Insights Group by Lightspeed Research, reported by RBR.com, 6th July 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Foursquare had over 1 million checkins on 2nd July 2010
"Foursquare is enjoying huge growth and getting a lot of good press as of late.
Just days after securing $20 million series B round of capital, the location service has announced another big milestone – 1 million check-ins in one day."
Source: The Next Web, 3rd July 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Approximately 108m mobile phones were sold in India in 2009-2010
"If you can source it from China, have large marketing budgets and retail distribution in place, you can sell it in India.
Seeing the success of MicroMaxx, Karbonn, Lava and Lemon – low cost “value for money” entrants in India’s burgeoning handset market – more consumer companies are now adding mobile handsets to their portfolio. A Voice & Data survey revealed earlier this month that local Indian handset brands (including Spice) grabbed 14% marketshare (up from 3-4% a year ago), and Nokia lost 12% market share. Of the Indian brands, Micromax has 4.1% handset market share by revenue, Spice has 3.9%, Karbonn has 3%, Lava has 1.1%, Lemon 1% and Max has 0.9%. Around 108 million mobile phones were sold in the country during 2009-10, adding up to Rs 27,000 crore in sales, according to Voice & Data."
Source: MediaNama, 2nd July 2010
Seeing the success of MicroMaxx, Karbonn, Lava and Lemon – low cost “value for money” entrants in India’s burgeoning handset market – more consumer companies are now adding mobile handsets to their portfolio. A Voice & Data survey revealed earlier this month that local Indian handset brands (including Spice) grabbed 14% marketshare (up from 3-4% a year ago), and Nokia lost 12% market share. Of the Indian brands, Micromax has 4.1% handset market share by revenue, Spice has 3.9%, Karbonn has 3%, Lava has 1.1%, Lemon 1% and Max has 0.9%. Around 108 million mobile phones were sold in the country during 2009-10, adding up to Rs 27,000 crore in sales, according to Voice & Data."
Source: MediaNama, 2nd July 2010
The RIAA warns over 1 million copyright infringers each year
"In less than two years the RIAA [Recording Industry Association of America] has sent copyright infringement notices to 1.8 million Internet subscribers and 269,609 to colleges and universities. Despite this staggering average of more than a million infringement notices every year from the recording industry alone, the effect on file-sharing levels seems unnoticeable.
For years, content owners such as record labels and movie studios have been sending copyright infringement notices to Internet users. They hire companies such as DtecNet and BayTSP, who monitor file-sharing networks and automatically send infringement notices to Internet providers. The Internet providers on their turn are legally obliged to forward these to their customers."
Source: TorrentFreak, 4th July 2010
For years, content owners such as record labels and movie studios have been sending copyright infringement notices to Internet users. They hire companies such as DtecNet and BayTSP, who monitor file-sharing networks and automatically send infringement notices to Internet providers. The Internet providers on their turn are legally obliged to forward these to their customers."
Source: TorrentFreak, 4th July 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
2 Billion add-ons have been downloaded for Firefox
"Mozilla is celebrating another significant milestone for its flagship Firefox browser – two billion downloaded add-ons.
In an announcement on its rockyourfirefox web site, the company thanked its developers and loyal users, and talked up the customisation features of the browser.
“[This] feat was made possible by the huge community of people like you who use Firefox add-ons as well as the thousands of developers who make the add-ons you use,” wrote Julie Shin Choi, a Mozilla marketing executive.
“Over the years, we remained dedicated to building features and products that make Firefox the world’s most customisable web browser for consumers and developers."
Mozilla passed the one billion mark in November 2008 and at that time predicted that it would take around three years to double that number. However, it beat that estimate with ease, and Choi predicted that another major milestone would be reached soon."
Source: V3, 2nd July 2010
In an announcement on its rockyourfirefox web site, the company thanked its developers and loyal users, and talked up the customisation features of the browser.
“[This] feat was made possible by the huge community of people like you who use Firefox add-ons as well as the thousands of developers who make the add-ons you use,” wrote Julie Shin Choi, a Mozilla marketing executive.
“Over the years, we remained dedicated to building features and products that make Firefox the world’s most customisable web browser for consumers and developers."
Mozilla passed the one billion mark in November 2008 and at that time predicted that it would take around three years to double that number. However, it beat that estimate with ease, and Choi predicted that another major milestone would be reached soon."
Source: V3, 2nd July 2010
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