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
Digital social basics for parents (or grandparents)
Is anyone in your (extended) family needing a primer on (Web- and phone-based) social networking, maybe to understand what his great-granddaughter finds so compelling about "this Facebook thing?" If so, David Pogue at the New York Times gets really, really basic – in both a cute little video and brief written explanations on this page – of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, FourSquare, and Yelp. The … [Read more...] about Digital social basics for parents (or grandparents)
Snapshot of how mobile the social Web is
Clearly, mobile phones are a growing sector of the social Web. More and more people are accessing social sites with their phones. Here – from social-media research firm Flowtown – are graphical, at-a-glance views of the growth of phone-based access; what portion of Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter users use the sites with their phones; and what activities engage them while in the sites on their … [Read more...] about Snapshot of how mobile the social Web is
Twitterers in US and Japan
Micro-blogging via Twitter has really taken off in Japan. In fact, proportionately more Japanese than Americans tweet: 16.3% of Japan's Internet users vs. 9.8% of the US's, according to an article in the Washington Post. Compare that to Facebook use in Japan at only 3% of Net users vs. 62% of US Net users also using Facebook, the article cites Nielsen research as showing. Japan's No. 1 social … [Read more...] about Twitterers in US and Japan