How many is a lot of users?

It seems that Facebook was hovering around 800 million users for a year now. I was starting to get the feeling they had maxed out. Now news just in is they may be topping 1 billion users soon. (That’s 1 out 7 people globally!)

And this news on the same day as Twitter, who was hovering around a few hundred million users, is set to reach 500 million in February. Half a billion. That’s a big number. 

Internet 2011 in numbers - Global desktop web browser market share 
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Internet 2011 in numbers - Global desktop web browser market share 

(via thenextweb)

Source: royal.pingdom.com

If you’re interested in the mobile market in South Africa, see this infographic, and download the takeaway PDF. Mobile Insights - Nielsen South Africa
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If you’re interested in the mobile market in South Africa, see this infographic, and download the takeaway PDF.

Mobile Insights - Nielsen South Africa

Source: mobileinsights.co.za

So how fast is the internet growing? Some great stats over here » How Big Is the Web & How Fast Is It Growing?
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So how fast is the internet growing?

Some great stats over here » How Big Is the Web & How Fast Is It Growing?

Source: Mashable

Tumblr Now Has More Blogs Than WordPress.com That’s cool. 20 million blogs is plenty. Well done Tumblr!
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Tumblr Now Has More Blogs Than WordPress.com That’s cool. 20 million blogs is plenty. Well done Tumblr!

Source: Mashable

460,000.
The number of new Twitter accounts created every single day, last month! (average per day). Could your servers handle that kind of load?
Mobile Phone Operating System Domination - (chart)
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Mobile Phone Operating System Domination - (chart)

Source: feedproxy.google.com

The Czech Republic tops the world’s beer consumption per capita

The Czech Republic tops the world’s beer consumption per capita at 158.6 litres per person per year!

That’s nearly half a litre per day!

Now given that a fair chunk of any population is too old or too young or too ill or too religious to be drinking, or simply don’t drink beer, that pushes the number even higher for those who do. Incredible.

See Wikipedia article

Source: Wikipedia

Silver is the new black (internationally). But in South Africa it’s a slightly different story: “White was overwhelmingly the most popular vehicle color choice in the region, at 35 percent, which is the highest percentage of any region covered in the report. Silver (24 percent) takes second and black/black effect combine for 14 percent.” I guess we knew this, but it’s interesting to see the stats. Silver is the world’s most popular car color for 2010, black comes in second
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Silver is the new black (internationally).

But in South Africa it’s a slightly different story: “White was overwhelmingly the most popular vehicle color choice in the region, at 35 percent, which is the highest percentage of any region covered in the report. Silver (24 percent) takes second and black/black effect combine for 14 percent.”

I guess we knew this, but it’s interesting to see the stats.

Silver is the world’s most popular car color for 2010, black comes in second

Source: egmcartech.com

Mobile web stats in South Africa

The numbers:

42m mobile subscribers.

31m web-enabled phones.

15m people browsing the mobile web.

That’s a big audience. And huge potential too.

Relative Size of Geosocial Universe Some surprises here! Skype at 590 million, sheesh! And Yahoo mail - so high too, why? Surely not because it’s better than GMail? Maybe just because it arrived earlier. Same as Hotmail. Few others I’d like to have seen there, like, Plaxo, Orkut. Are they still relevant?
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Relative Size of Geosocial Universe

Some surprises here! Skype at 590 million, sheesh! And Yahoo mail - so high too, why? Surely not because it’s better than GMail? Maybe just because it arrived earlier. Same as Hotmail.

Few others I’d like to have seen there, like, Plaxo, Orkut. Are they still relevant?

Source: gigaom.com

It’s official - Facebook has 500 million users!
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Which Companies are the Most Social ? Some interesting stats here (and some very surprising too!) via mashable.com
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Which Companies are the Most Social ?

Some interesting stats here (and some very surprising too!)

via mashable.com

Source: Mashable

American Youth: TV Habits

  • In 2/3 of households, TVs are on during meals 
  • In 75% of households, TVs are on when no one is watching them. 
  • More than 70% of kids have TVs in their bedrooms

Read the full survey here

Source: Business Insider

Twitter Finally Reveals All Its Secret Stats Here’s a summary of the facts and figures Twitter just shared: Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users. New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day. 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month. 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.) Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API. Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day. Twitter’s search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day. Of Twitter’s active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet. Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.
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Twitter Finally Reveals All Its Secret Stats

Here’s a summary of the facts and figures Twitter just shared:

  • Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users.
  • New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day.
  • 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month.
  • 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.)
  • Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API.
  • Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day.
  • Twitter’s search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day.
  • Of Twitter’s active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet.
  • Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.

Source: Business Insider