what I lack in interestingness…..
…I make up for in enthusiasm…..apparently. Ah well, at least I am skinny in the picture….
social media
reading: geosocial networking-the secret sexism of social media | The Economist
It occurred to me that I have yet to hear a woman brag about getting a badge from Foursquare, and that I never will. In fact, come to think of it, I barely hear women mention such services at all. Over the following weeks I kept a sharp eye (and ear) out, and only found one friend—tech-savvy and typically an early adopter of all manner of gadgetry—who described herself as a Foursquare fan. Just the other day, she said, she had been sitting by herself eating a lonely crepe. Killing time, she checked in to the restaurant and, as luck would have it, a friend who was in the neighborhood dropped by.
via Geosocial networking: The secret sexism of social media | The Economist.
Twitter by #numbers
Five years ago this week, a small team of people started working on a prototype of the service that we now know as Twitter. On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first Tweet.
Today, on every measure of growth and engagement, Twitter is growing at a record pace. Here are some numbers:
#tweets
3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet.
1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets.
50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago.
140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month.
177 million. Tweets sent on March 11, 2011.
456. Tweets per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time).
6,939. Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day.
#accounts
572,000. Number of new accounts created on March 12, 2011.
460,000. Average number of new accounts per day over the last month.
182%. Increase in number of mobile users over the past year.
#employees
8. 29. 130. 350. 400. Number of Twitter employees in Jan 2008, Jan 2009, Jan 2010, Jan 2011 and today.
antisocial banking….
Most retail banks do not view social media as an important tool to engage with customers, putting them in a dangerous position, said Ovum in a statement. Ovum is part of Datamonitor group.
What do you think? Laggards or a sensible strategic decision? Who is doing it well in this sector?
Facebook obsessed? Us?
Spotted this rather nice infographic on The Wall blog illustrating our obsession with Facebook. Perhaps the most shocking stat is that a quarter of us check Facebook before getting out of bed……seriously. But even more shocking than that – Facebook was the most searched term in 2010, I mean how hard is the URL to remember?
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