Posts Tagged ‘ Twitter ’

London Riots cause traffic spike on Twitter

Tweet After three nights of unrest in London and other cities, the UK Internet population has been tracking the progress of the London riots by visiting News and Media sites and Twitter. The News and Media category saw its highest spike in visits so far this year, with a 14% increase in UK Internet visits [...][ READ MORE ]

YouTube and Twitter erode Facebook’s dominance of social

Tweet In this month’s search and social analysis release we saw some pretty interesting trends in our Social Networking and Forums category, including a bumper month of traffic for Twitter, extended growth for YouTube and a declining market share for Facebook. Last month I blogged about the growth of YouTube and how the video website [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter accounts for 1 in every 184 UK Internet visits online

Tweet Twitter just keeps on growing, reaching another new peak in UK Internet traffic this weekend on Saturday 21 May. The site experienced its highest ever volume of online traffic on Saturday, accounting for 0.54% of all UK Internet visits that day, or to put it in simpler terms: Twitter was responsible for 1 in [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter has biggest ever day of online traffic after super injunction revelations

Tweet Twitter had its highest ever peak in UK Internet visits yesterday (9 May 2011) due to the extraordinary revelations of the super injunction scandal, which exposed the identities of several high profile celebrities. Visits to Twitter increased by 14% on 9 May, accounting for 0.49% of total Internet visits that day. Twitter also became [...][ READ MORE ]

Social media more popular than Entertainment online

Tweet Social networks continue to grow in dominance and for the first time ever, social media has become the single biggest activity online in the UK, overtaking the Entertainment category. During January 2011 social networks accounted for 12.4% of all UK Internet visits. Across the 9,000 social networks that we monitor, there were over 2.4 [...][ READ MORE ]

Christmas 2.0 – a time for sharing (on Facebook at least)

Tweet Social networking has become an integral part of our lives and this Christmas more people will be sharing messages of good will with each other than ever before. As we get closer to Christmas Day visits to social networking sites have reached a new peak for the year, accounting for nearly 13.5%of all UK [...][ READ MORE ]

Snow dictates search behaviour to news, travel and retail sites

Tweet Online search behaviour was dictated this weekend by the snow. With the flakes falling thick and fast on Saturday there were huge spikes in traffic to news, weather, travel and social networking sites. With reports of up to five inches of snow falling in the space of an hour on Saturday, aircraft at many [...][ READ MORE ]

Digital Death provides boon of Life for kids charity

Tweet Running an effective social media campaign is no easy task for any company, but for a charity with limited marketing resources that challenge is especially difficult. Perhaps the greatest success to date of an excellent charitable social media campaign was the Nike Chalkbot, which promoted the LIVESTRONG campaign on the Tour de France raising [...][ READ MORE ]

Gamu Nhengu number one search topic driving traffic to Facebook

Tweet X-Factor controversy has been splashed all over the media this week ever since Cheryl Cole decided not to put through outstanding talent Gamu Nhengu. What first seemed like a talent contest fix then descended into accusations of racism and finally the revelation that Gamu and her family are due to be deported to Zimbabwe. [...][ 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 ]