Posts Tagged ‘ Social Networks ’
Following this week’s ‘s announcement that Facebook will acquire Friendfeed, we wanted to share a few stats from the US (Robin posted UK stats earlier this week). First, let’s put the size of the two sites in context. Facebook ranked #2 among All Categories of websites last week (behind Google) and was #1 among Social [...][ READ MORE ]
I was living vicariously through WSJ’s Julia Angwin’s Mogul-fest tweets last week (ironically throughout the week she tweeted that several moguls didn’t see the future in Twitter). While in Sun Valley, Angwin reported a brief interchange with Murdoch regarding the future direction of MySpace. Murdoch stated that MySpace needed to be re-focused “as an entertainment [...][ READ MORE ]
It has been widely reported that Michael Jackson’s untimely death caused a flurry of online activity last week, downing Twitter, Wikipedia and TMZ and even causing problems for Google News. Searches for “michael jackson” ranked 7th among all search terms last week, accounting for one in every 500 US Internet searches. The top websites receiving [...][ READ MORE ]
Following the elections that took place in Iran on June 12, Twitter has become one of the most popular mediums for distributing information about the protests. Daily visits to Twitter.com (excludes mobile & desktop applications) increased 13% on June 12th as compared to the previous Friday and traffic jumped 23% Wednesday, June 17th from news [...][ READ MORE ]
Robin Goad, our UK Research Director wrote about the surge in traffic to Facebook in the UK in response to the premier this weekend of personalized or vanity usernames. Here’s a daily chart of Facebook’s U.S. marketshare: While we also witnessed an uptick in marketshare this weekend, up 2.8% from Friday June 12th to Saturday [...][ READ MORE ]
Websites that shorten URLs have become a hot category over the past few weeks, mostly due to the increasing popularity of Twitter and their use to fit URLs in tweets without going over the 140 character limit. One website, TinyURL has dominated this category and was the default URL shortening service for Twitter, until today [...][ READ MORE ]
Oprah Winfrey, the icon that can turn any book or product into a best seller, posted her first Tweet on Friday on her show. There’s been much debate among loyal Twitter users about whether this spells the end for Twitter’s coolness, as soccer moms sign up in droves. So what was the Oprah-Effect on Twitter? [...][ READ MORE ]
To piggy back on a post my colleague across the pond, Robin Goad, did yesterday, we thought we’d revisit some of the stats to better understand how things would look if Google were to acquire Twitter. As the chart below illustrates, US Internet visits to Twitter have increased 194% since the start of the year [...][ READ MORE ]
What do people search for on Twitter? We collected search terms that we took place within Twitter’s search engine to identify the topics that are being searched most often on Twitter for the week ending March 21, 2009. Searches for the vampire series ‘twilight’ were the most popular for the week overall fueled by the [...][ READ MORE ]
Is Twitter, as Eric Schmidt opined last week, the poor man’s email? Is it a Facebook or Google killer? What can clickstream data tell us about how people are using Twitter and how does that compare to email, Facebook and search engines? The following table shows the top 20 websites visited after Twitter.com in February. [...][ READ MORE ]
