Vincos Blog: Europe largest continent on Facebook 16. June 2011
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Facebook is slowly gaining users around the world. It establishes as leader in 119 of 134 countries analyzed by Vincos Blog. Europe is now the largest continent on Facebook – with 205 million users.
Further information via World Map of Social Networks | Vincos Blog.
Nielsen: U.S. Smartphone App Users Concerned with Privacy When it Comes to Location 6. May 2011
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More and more mobile applications allow consumers to share information about where they are by voluntarily “checking in” to a location or by having their GPS-enabled smartphone automatically transmit that information via the app. Some marketers reward consumers for sharing their location with loyalty points, discount coupons for nearby businesses, or other promotional “badges” and benefits.
But despite the growing popularity of check-in services in the U.S., there are still many who are reticent to share information about their geographic location. According to The Nielsen Company’s latest research on mobile applications, most mobile app downloaders, which Nielsen defines as those mobile subscribers who have downloaded an application in the past 30 days, are concerned about privacy when it comes to sharing their location via mobile phone. This concern is more pronounced among women app downloaders, with 59 percent reporting they have privacy concerns compared to 52 percent of male app downloaders.
Facebook most visited site 2010 30. December 2010
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Facebook was the top-visited Website for the first time and accounted for 8.93 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010. Google.com ranked second with 7.19 percent of visits, followed by Yahoo! Mail (3.52 percent), Yahoo! (3.30 percent) and YouTube (2.65 percent).
via Experian Hitwise :: Facebook was the top search term in 2010 for second straight year.
How Facebook is eroding Google’s Influence (Business-Insider) 27. December 2010
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Will Facebook ever displace Google as a search engine? Probably not. But, it could quickly erode Google’s dominance as the way people find information.
Below is a chart from a Wedbush presentation. As you can see the referral traffic from social networks to a number of big sites is greater than from Google. Note it’s not just media sites, it’s commerce sites too.
Sillicon Insider: How Facebook (And Social Media) Is Eroding Google's Influence
This is not a form of searching as we’ve traditionally thought of it. But, it’s certainly a way of finding information.
via CHART OF THE DAY: How Facebook (And Social Media) Is Eroding Google’s Influence.
Mashable: Facebook Number 1 according to Google Ad Planner 28. May 2010
Posted by Gerhard W. Loub in Advertising, Facebook, Social Networks, Statistics.Tags: Facebook, Google, Google Ad Planner, Mashable
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According to Google’s AdPlanner stats, Facebook is the number one most-visited destination on the web. Weighing in at an unfathomably heavy 570 billion page views and 540 million users, the ubiquitous social network outranks every other non-Google site, taking more than 35% of all web traffic measured.
Social Networks surpass email 15. April 2010
Posted by Gerhard W. Loub in Facebook, Google, Media, Social Networks, Statistics.Tags: email, Facebook, Google, homepage, operating system, sascha lobo, SNS, Social Networks
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It´s a real astonishing development: First Facebook becomes more important for information search than Google, now it becomes clear, that Social Networks surpassed emails. Youngsters start using Facebook as primary mailbox, Social Network users ask their friends for information – and don´t google every question. As the german webguru Sascha Lobo said: “Facebook is becoming the OS of the internet” – not only for information searching, reading hot news, or gaming but also for every sort of communication – from chat to emails.
CHART OF THE DAY: Email’s Reign Is Over, Social Networking Is The New King.
Mashable: Twitter Has 105 Million Registered Users 14. April 2010
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Now it´s official: Twitter has over 105 million users. But how many are active?
In kicking off Twitter’s Chirp developer conference, the company finally revealed its long mysterious registered user number, and it’s surprisingly large based on some prior outside estimates: 105 million, or to be exact, 105,779,710, according to a slide showing behind co-founder Biz Stone during his opening remarks.
via Twitter Has 105 Million Registered Users.
