Another quick glimpse of how international social media are: Twitter grew 109% in the past year, comScore says, and "Indonesia, Brazil, and Venezuela led the surge." Indonesia was No. 1, with 20.8% of Net users there having visited Twitter in June. As for Venezuela’s growth, it was "fueled in large part by President Hugo Chavez’s decision to join Twitter in late April," comScore reports. Nearly … [Read more...] about Tweeting around the globe
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All things video: Key feature of online life
Video-making, -sharing, and -viewing are huge and growing online and on-phone activities, so much so that they're now just part of our media landscape. ComScore just released its mind-boggling July figures, with the Top 5 video-viewing and -sharing destinations being Google sites (YouTube, basically) at 143.2 million viewers last month); Yahoo! sites at 55.4 million; Facebook at 46.6 million; … [Read more...] about All things video: Key feature of online life
How Americans 13+ use their cellphones
Text messaging is by far the No. 1 activity of US mobile phone users aged 13 and up, according to the latest figures from comScore. Though talking on the phone isn't even on the list (presumably all cellphone users do that), comScore's January figures show that 63.5% of mobile subscribers send text messages. The other mobile activities on the list are "Used browser" (28.6%), "Played games" … [Read more...] about How Americans 13+ use their cellphones
Fresh social-Web & Net numbers
If Facebook were a country, it would be the world's third most populous one, after China and India. As for the world's most avid social networkers, Americans are 4th, behind Australians, Britons, and Italians, respectively – The Economist reports in a special report on social networking – followed by users in South Korea, Spain, Brazil, Germany, France, and Japan. The world's most popular social … [Read more...] about Fresh social-Web & Net numbers
25 billion+ videos viewed
That was just this past August in the US, according to comScore's latest figures - yet another online video-viewing record. More than 10 billion of those views were on Google sites, with YouTube representing 99% of Google video traffic. In terms of people, "161 million US Internet users watched online video during the month, the largest audience ever recorded," comScore Video Metrix reports. The … [Read more...] about 25 billion+ videos viewed