Posts Tagged ‘ Blogs ’

What would a Google-Twitter marriage mean?

Tweet Last week it was reported that Google is in talks to purchase Twitter. Therefore, now seems like a good time to revisit some of the stats, starting with the top level traffic figures. As the chart below illustrates, UK Internet visits to Twitter have increased 6-fold since the start of the year and 32-fold [...][ READ MORE ]

Daniel Hannan: has social media finally gone political in the UK?

Tweet It is generally accepted that his campaign team’s use of social media contributed to Barack Obama’s victory in last year’s American presidential election. But over on this side of the pond, politicians have been much slower to grasp the nettle and really exploit the benefits of Internet. Last year’s London Mayoral election – widely [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter and UK newspaper websites

Tweet Last week (w/e 14/03/09) Twitter.com was the 54th most visited website in the UK, up from 66th the week before. One consequence of Twitter rapid rise up the rankings is that the micro-blogging service has now overtaken most of the UK newspapers online. As the chart below illustrates, last week Twitter received more UK [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter enters top 100 sites; UK traffic has trebled already in 2009

Tweet Last week (w/e 07/02/09) Twitter became one of the 100 most visited websites in the UK for the first time. It ranked 91st within All Categories, placing above online heavyweights such as Expedia UK (96), Gumtree (100), easyJet (101), Digital Spy (103) and Money Supermarket (105). As the chart below illustrates, Twitter now ranks [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter traffic increases 10-fold in a year

Tweet Following Heather’s post yesterday on Twitter overtaking Digg in the US, here is some UK data on the most talked about website of the moment: UK Internet traffic to the site has increased 10-fold over past last 12 months. For the week ending 17/01/09 www.twitter.com ranked as the 291st most visited website in the [...][ READ MORE ]

TVs, Computers and iPods most popular sales items

Tweet The table below lists the 10 most searched for consumer electronics products last week (which included the key sales days of Christmas Day and Boxing Day) and the week before. Searches for televisions increased by 148% last week, making the TV the second most searched for consumer electronics product after mobile phones. Shoppers are [...][ READ MORE ]

Pre-budget report: tax cuts and petrol prices

Tweet Given the economic conditions and the various rumours last week, the government’s pre-budget report has received a lot of attention online .Looking at the search data up to last week, you can see from the chart below that searches for ‘tax cuts’ have recently increased significantly for the first time in three years. However, [...][ READ MORE ]

The cult of Robert Peston and BBC blogs

Tweet Is Robert Peston – “the face of the credit crunch” – the hardest working man at the BBC? The corporation’s business editor starts his day at breakfast time on the Today Programme and doesn’t seem to finish until bed time on Newsnight. In between he makes several appearances on other TV and radio programmes, [...][ READ MORE ]

The role of news aggregators in the UK

Tweet News aggregators come in many shapes and sizes, ranging from straight forward aggregators (e.g. Google News) to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Stumble Upon and Delicious. When creating a custom category of the top sites in the UK we used a pretty fluid definition. As you can from the table below, which lists [...][ READ MORE ]

Top bands / artists: Katy Perry and Kate Nash

Tweet Here are the top band / artist searches sending traffic to social networks and music blogs during August. Starting with the social networks, Katy Perry, who topped the British and American charts over the summer with her hit “I Kissed a Girl”, is at number one. Indeed, we recently pointed out that ‘i kissed [...][ READ MORE ]