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Mobile internet use set to soar [stats].

Published on November 29, 2010 in business, mobile and technology. View Comments

Here are 2 slides I think are interesting in relation to growing mobile internet use around the world.

The slides are from a recent presentation by former Morgan Stanley (now moving to Kleiner Perkins) tech analyst Mary Meeker. The full presentation can be downloaded from here. Click on the images below to see them in a larger size, in a new window.

In short, 3G subscription growth is climbing at very high rates in some countries with very large populations, such as Brazil, China, Indonesia and Russia, and is still around 25-35 percent year on year in many other countries around the world.

mobile internet growth

Additionally, it’s astonishing how steep the curve is when the Apple iPhone, iTouch and iPad are shown together, in comparison to the first 20 quarters from the launch of some other products and services. It seems clear that mobile still has a big future ahead.

Apple iPhone + iTouch + iPad useage

The whole presentation is embedded over at Business Insider.

Are you social networking right now? There’s a decent chance…

Published on August 2, 2010 in Australia, Twitter and social media. View Comments

Apparently, if you are American, there’s a decent chance you are social networking right now. According to a new Neilsen survey, Americans now spend nearly a quarter of their online time social networking. This is a 43 percent increase from only a year ago.

According to the Neilsen survey, this makes social networking the most popular online activity in America. Online gaming came in second and good old email came in third.

Online Social Networking

If you’re in Australia, as I am, back in June it was revealed that we spend the most time social networking in the world. According to that previous survey, the U.S. and Italy came in second and third respectively.

Well I can say for certain that you’re definitely reading a blog right now, but do you also have Twitter or Facebook or some other form of social media at your fingertips too? There’s a good chance you do.

10 new stats showing why you should take Twitter seriously (if you don’t already).

Published on June 22, 2010 in Facebook, Twitter, business, mobile and social media. View Comments

Following on from my last post, 10 new stats showing the fast growing popularity of social media, I thought I’d give a quick update on where Twitter is at in terms of recent growth.

These new stats have been revealed over the past few weeks. They show that Twitter is quickly becoming a real(time) media force to be reckoned with. Even though the younger Twitter is nowhere near the size of Facebook, these stats show that Twitter is certainly growing up fast.

  1. Twitter now has close to 106 million users.
  2. Twitter is attracting 190 million visitors per month.
  3. Twitter is generating 65 million Tweets a day, or 2 billion tweets per month.
  4. Twitter sees around 135,000 new registrations every day.
  5. There are 600 million search queries on Twitter per day (real-time search revenue anyone?).
  6. In April 2010 Twitter announced that there were 100,000 applications for Twitter. In Dec. 2009 the company reported 50,000 Twitter applications.
  7. Applications account for 75% of all tweets.
  8. 37% of active Twitter users connect to the service via mobile applications.
  9. Tweetmeme recently had over 500 million retweet buttons served in one day, 15 billion a month.
  10. Tweetmeme’s retweet button is now on almost 200,000 websites.

It makes me wonder: where will Twitter be at a year from now? It’ll also be interesting to see how their new revenue generating activities go over the first 12 months or so.

10 new stats showing the fast growing popularity of social media.

Published on June 16, 2010 in Facebook, Google, blogging, business and social media. View Comments

According to new data from Nielson and Hitwise, social media is becoming incredibly popular worldwide. Let’s get straight to it, the stats speak for themselves.

  1. Three quarters of web users worldwide visit a social network or blog when they go online.
  2. The numbers of people visiting social networks and blogs has increased by 24% from last year.
  3. The average visitor spends 66 percent more time on these sites than a year ago.
  4. The average visitor spent almost 6 hours on networks and blogs in April 2010 as opposed to 3 hours, 31 minutes last year.
  5. According to Hitwise, Facebook’s overall web traffic pulled ahead of Google’s for the first time in the U.S. in March 2010.
  6. People in the U.K. are now visiting social networks more than they’re visiting search engines.
  7. YouTube recently surpassed two billion views per day.
  8. Twitter has now reached 65 million tweets a day and 2 billion tweets per month.
  9. At 86 percent, Brazil has the highest percentage of web users visiting social networks.
  10. Australian web users spend the most time on social networking sites, averaging 7 hours 19 minutes in April. The U.S. and Italy came in second and third with six and a half hours each.

What seems clear from these stats and others before them, is that the internet is becoming a much more human and social place than it used to be. Do these stats reflect the amount of time and frequency you use social network and blogs?  My own usage is certainly way above the averages stated here!