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Amazing activity in the world of social media

Tony Watkins — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:20:13 +0000

Extraordinary counter for social media activity around the world. 270 billion comments on Facebook in the last year. Over 1.5 million hours of video uploaded to YouTube in the last month. 16 million iPhone apps downloaded a day. About 10,000 tweets every second. Fascinating. (HT Big Bible)

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Facebook use around the world

Tony Watkins — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:59:24 +0000

Facebook has notched up 500 million users this week. The Guardian had data on where they all are, and a data analyst at Tableau, Ross Perez, put this into a great visualisation.

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The state of the Internet

Tony Watkins — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:19:44 +0000

A good summary of where the Internet is right now, or rather, where it was at the end of 2009.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

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Facebook infographic

Tony Watkins — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:16:18 +0000

An interesting infographic which was posted on mashable.com:

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Internet 2009 in numbers

Tony Watkins — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:56:11 +0000

Some very interesting stats on a Royal Pingdom post. Here’s a selection of those that particularly interest me:

Email

90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.

247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.

1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.

100 million – New email users since the year before.

81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.

92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.

24% – Increase in spam since last year.

200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).

Social Media

126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).

84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.

27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)

57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.

4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user).

350 million – People on Facebook.

50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.

500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.

Images

4 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).

2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.

30 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.

Videos

1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.

12.2 billion – Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009).

924 million – Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009).

182 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).

82% – Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).

39.4% – YouTube online video market share (USA).

81.9% – Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.

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If you printed Twitter – brilliant infographic

Tony Watkins — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:07:16 +0000

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Evangelism in a Digital Age

Tony Watkins — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:13:33 +0000

The second of my two workshops at Good Book Company’s ‘Growing Young Disciples training day on youth and children’s work. The audio may be available on the GBC website at some point. You can download the pdf by clicking on the menu button in the bottom-left corner of the Slideshare player.

Evangelism in a Digital Age

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Twitter, the new shovelware | Media Guardian 10 Sep 09

Tony Watkins — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:29:16 +0000

While newspapers may have flocked to get seen on Twitter, researchers have found that most simply use it to promote their own material.

Academics Marcus Messner and Asriel Eford looked at 180 of the top US newspapers and television stations’ Twitter activity and analysed what was produced.

Presenting the findings at the Future of Journalism Conference in Cardiff this morning, Messen said, although 91% had Twitter accounts, only two thirds of those studied actually tweeted and that 98.5% of the hyperlinks tweeted, simply pointed to existing website content.

He said: “We found that more attention needs to be paid to community building. It needs to go beyond shovelware.

“Most content could be found on the website – it’s like when websites started and newspapers just shovelled online what they had in the paper. Twitter needs to be engaged as online social network.”

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Lifestreaming with Drupal

Tony Watkins — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:06:23 +0000

Simple presentation of the essence of lifestreaming.

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Posting threshold

Tony Watkins — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:17:33 +0000

One of the reasons why my earlier blog failed – probably the most common one – is the threshold for posting to a blog is quite high. It means opening Scribefire, doing some copying and pasting, writing something, categorising it, adding tags and publishing it. The joy of Twitter, I have found in the last three or four weeks, is that the posting threshold is so low. Firefox addons, like the one for tr.im url shortening, make it easy to quickly tweet something out into cyberspace in under a minute. Interestingly, the more I’ve used Twitter, the more I’ve realised the need to be blogging again. Sometimes 140 characters aren’t enough, and there are times when I don’t want to tweet something without comment.

Well, it remains to be seen how motivated I’ll be to work the two in tandem in three or four weeks, after being back at work for a while and with all sorts of things competing for my time. But it does seem to me at the moment that the two approaches make a good combination. And maybe Twitter followers are what’s needed to keep the ongoing motivation.

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