Posts from — December 2008

Number of Twitter users : 4-5 million
Daily New Registrations : 5000-10000

Percent users who are unengaged : 30%
Percent users with no photo : 38%
Percent users with 0-5 followers : 22%
Percent users following zero others : 9%

PS : Twitter will take 37 years to catch up to the current user figures of Facebook

The list released by Opera lists Facebook above MySpace for the first time! The ranking is as follows:

1. Facebook
2. MySpace
3. Friendster
4. My Opera
5. Orkut
6. Mocospace
7. Peperonity
8. Hi5

China is approaching the One Billion mark in the number of telephone subscribers. As of October end,

Total number of telephone users : 979 million
Number of cellphone users : 677 million
Number of landlines : 352 million
Number of Internet users : 300 million

Data Services (including SMS and broadband services) contributes to 33.4% of the total revenues in the telecommunications industry

A report studying the growth of social networking through mobile phones will reach 800 million users by 2012. Here is the projected number of users through the various years and the percentage of mobile subscriber base they represent (in brackets)

2007 : 82 million (2.7%)
2008 : 147 million (4.3%)
2009 : 243 million (6.6%)
2010 : 369 million (9.5%)
2011 : 554 million (13.3%)
2012 : 803 million (18.8%)

eBay has won over AOL in the list of the most trusted companies for privacy in the US. Google was at number 10 in 2007, and is now off the top 20 list.

Here are the list of technology companies that made it to the top 10 in 2007 and 2008:

2007
3. IBM
4. AOL
5. Amazon
8. eBay
10. Google

2008
2. eBay
3. IBM
4. Amazon
8. Apple

American Express has been the most trusted company in both these years.

Facebook is increasingly engaging the users more compared to Google. Here are a few crunchies on what users on Facebook are upto:

Average friends per user : 100
Time spent on Facebook each day : 2.6 billion minutes
Number of users changing their status at least once a day : 13 million
Number of photos uploaded every month : 700 million
Number of videos uploaded every month : 4 million
Content shared each month by users : 15 million

Taking this all into effect, Facebook is now closing in on Google in terms of time spent.

Time spent on Facebook in October : 33.9 billion minutes
Time spent on Google in Octobe : 41.6 billion minutes

Digg gets 22.6 million unique visitors every month.

2007 Revenues
Revenues : $4.8 million
Loss : $2.8 million

2008 Revenues (First three quarters)
Revenues : $6.4 million
Loss : $4 million

Operational Costs : $14 million annually

What are the top five most searched gadgets during the Christmas season? Nintendo tops the list in Britain, Germany and France!

TOP FIVE GADGETS IN UNITED KINGDOM
1. Nintendo Wii
2. iPod
3. Xbox 360
4. iPhone
5. Sony Playstation 3

TOP FIVE GADGETS IN GERMANY
1. Nintendo Wii
2. iPod
3. iPhone
4. Xbox 360
5. Sony Playstation 3

TOP FIVE GADGETS IN FRANCE
1. Nintendo Wii
2. iPhone
3. iPod
4. Xbox 360
5. Sony Playstation 3

It is a no brainer that landline telephones are losing popularity over cellphones. Here are a few crunchies:

17.5 percent of households now solely depend on cellphones for communication (up from 13.6 percent last year)
13.3 percent of households receive almost all calls on their cellphones only despite owning a landline
85 percent of America owns a cellphone

How trustworthy are blogs perceived? An exhaustive global survey provides a dismal picture of blogs as a trustworthy news medium. Here are the percent respondents in some countries of those trusted blogs over other medium for information:

Global : 10%
Norway : 5%
Netherlands : 5%
Sweden : 5%
Germany : 5%
USA : 9%
China : 24%
S.Korea : 22%