Statistics: Who is Online and What Are They Doing?
14 July 2009click image to enlarge The Internet is for Teeny Boppers False. Take a few minutes to look at the data above and let me tell you why it's interesting: 5% of people over age 62 create web content (blogs, podcasts, etc). That means that in a room of 20 people aged 62 or over, at least ONE posts content to the internet. Take that, you lil buggers! In a room of 17 senior citizens, at least one has joined a social network. Yeah, Grammy's on Facebook too, y'all! So one of every nine seniors you know ...
Facebook Up, MySpace Down
09 February 2009Social networking site Facebook turned five years old this week and has a marked impact on social media as their market share continues to grow. According to our 2008 Social Media Statistics Study, Facebook grew 85% in 2008 alone and boasts over 150 million users. Hitwise Intelligence reports that "one year ago, visits to Facebook represented 15% of the total social networking category while MySpace captured 73%. In January 2009, Facebook’s share doubled to reach 31%, while MySpace’s total share of the ...
2008 Social Media Statistics Report
26 January 2009We've combed the land of statistics high and low as 2008 closes and companies go public with their data and we've discovered that 2008 was a year of explosive social networking growth. We learned that Twitter grew 752%, Facebook has 150 million users, YouTube now hosts 44% of all online video, LinkedIn users have awesome household incomes, Flickr has over 3 billion images and that one million blog posts are written every day across the globe. Check out our FULL REPORT which covers 2008 statistics for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Wikipedia and blogs.

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