Posts Tagged ‘ Social Networks ’

10 things you need to know about Facebook

Tweet With the release of The Social Network this week, retelling the story of Facebook, I thought it a good time to look at just how popular the world’s biggest social networking site is. Many stats will be quoted in the media about Facebook this week, but here are some unique insights from our data, [...][ READ MORE ]

Nokia social media drive pushes N8 into the spotlight

Tweet Nokia’s new smartphone, the N8 started shipping last Friday bringing the Finnish mobile company right back into competition with the likes of Apple for the hotly contested smartphone market. Apple’s iPhone remains the dominant product in the market and so it’s an uphill struggle for any new smartphone trying to break into an already [...][ READ MORE ]

Canterbury top digital city in the UK

Tweet The Internet has become an integral part of a lot of people’s lives in the UK. Certain cities are particularly digitally integrated however, and surprisingly, London is not the online hub of the UK. In our analysis of Internet usage in the UK, Canterbury comes out on top as the top digital city and [...][ READ MORE ]

Kim Kardashian most popular celebrity using Twitter

Tweet Twitter has attracted some very high profile users in the last three years with Britney Spears, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross all big advocates of the micro-blogging platform. However, the most popular celebrity to use Twitter of recent months is Hollywood socialite Kim Kardashian. Kim’s Twitter feed is regularly updated [...][ READ MORE ]

Digg.com redesign alienates users

Tweet The Internet can be a fickle creature, but if there is one lesson that seems to consistently ring true it’s this: don’t alienate your core users. It’s a lesson that digg.com is learning the hard way. Having been a paragon of social bookmarking with over 40 million unique visitors a month at its peak, [...][ READ MORE ]

Can the mobile market accommodate a Facebook Phone? What the social network can learn from Google

Tweet With rumours circulating around the web that Facebook is set to join the mobile market with its very own handset device, it’s worth asking whether the mobile market is ready and able to accommodate yet another player into an already crowded and ultra-competitive space. The Facebook phone story started on Sunday when TechCrunch claimed [...][ READ MORE ]

Facebook accounts for 1 in 6 UK page views, but is it reaching saturation point?

Tweet Facebook is the second most visited website in the UK: in June it accounted for 7.14% of all UK Internet visits and over half (54.48%) of all visits to a social networking websites. In terms of total visits it continues to trail Google UK (9.59% market share in June) and, as we’ve highlighted before, [...][ READ MORE ]

LoveFilm: the 11th most visited online retailer in the UK

Tweet Yesterday BBC Radio 4′s consumer affairs program You and Yours included an item on LoveFilm, the online DVD rental and movie streaming service. It included an interview with the company’s CEO Simon Calver, as well as myself talking about the popularity of the site. You can listen to the interviews on iPlayer here, but [...][ READ MORE ]

Social networks now more popular than search engines in the UK

Tweet Social networks now receive more UK Internet visits than search engines. During May, social networks accounted for 11.88% of UK Internet visits and search engines accounted for 11.33%. May was the first ever month that social networks have been more popular than search engines in the UK. Facebook accounts for 55% of all UK [...][ READ MORE ]

Bigot-gate and the role of social networks in the election

Tweet Gordon Brown’s unfortunate gaff yesterday – already inevitably christened ‘Bigot-gate’ – was the big political story yesterday, and probably the second major event of the election (after Nick Clegg’s success in the first leadership debate). Accordng to our daily search data we tracked 400 distinct search terms containing the word ‘bigot’ yesterday; the day [...][ READ MORE ]