Posts Tagged ‘myspace’

Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites

Maybe you know the top 3 or even the top 5 Social Networking sites, but do you know what’s happening behind them? We have compiled a list with top 15 most popular social networking sites. Together with unique monthly visitors and biggest traffic ranking sites, this list will give you a pretty good overview into [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Social Media Weekend: All You Need to Know About Google+

Google has launched its attack on Facebook in the form of Google+ social network. Google Plus is a good thing for social media users even if it will not succeed. It’ll bring innovation, new services and better user experience by competing with Facebook. For this week’s social media doze I have collected the best posts [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Top 10 Social Networking Sites by Market Share of Visits 2008-2011

Click here for latest version of this post! Three years of US social networking market share data on a single chart. Facebook is winning more and more users. The only social website that has some traction compared to Facebook is YouTube with 19.22 percent. MySpace is declined to oblivion with only 1.67 percent of market [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Social Media Weekend: Stats, Surveys, and Wasting Time

Social Media at the Starting Blocks: A Look at Financial Institutions in Europe and the United States. A new report from Aite Group examines financial services firms’ current and planned use of social media to support their marketing efforts. The 2010 Social Media Report for Marketers. Nearly 90% of senior marketing professionals use professional and [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Top 10 Social Networking Sites by Market Share of Visits

Click here for latest version of this post! Social networks come and go. Facebook’s dominance seems uncontested now but it wasn’t very long ago when MySpace was the top social network. Now it’s on its way out. I was interested in how the social networks do against each other over time. I found a few [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Social Media and Young Adults

Pew Internet & American Life Project released a study about internet and social media use among Millennial generation by situating it within similar data for adolescents and adults older than 30. The data on teens is drawn from a survey conducted between June 26 and September 24, 2009 of 800 adolescents (ages 12 to 17). [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Facebook More Visited Than Google

Everything social is what people want to do most. Currently the top site is still Google but it will pass. People love to talk more than search. If we look at the top sites in US for 2009 then we see that four of them are used for communicating with others (Yahoo Mail, Facebook, MySpace [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Research: Student Grades Not Affected By Social Networking

The study “Social Networking Usage and Grades Among College Students” (PDF) finds that students who heavily engage in social networking do just as well academically as students who are less interested in keeping in touch with the medium. The study indicates that social media is being integrated with rather than interfering with students’ academic lives. [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Market Share of Social Networking Sites 2009

I have had a lot of people asking me about market shares of different social networking sites. So I went out and searched for most resent data I could find. While there’s really not much information freely available I compiled this list of sources that are all dated some time this year. Top 10 Social [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Portrait of a Twitter user

Status update demographics accross major services. 19% of internet users say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This is almost twice as much as in the previous surveys from December 2008 and April 2009, where this nomber was only 11%. Gadget people are using status-update [...]

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