
Twitter’s 6th Birthday: 140 Million Active Users, 340 Million Tweets A Day
It began innocently enough, with Jack Dorsey sending out a tweet that simply said, “just setting up my twttr” (which is what the service...

Google, Dell Prepare Tablet Counterattack As Apple Announces Three-Million iPad Weekend
iPad launch day: Where are all the sell-outs? On a conference call this morning about Apple’s just-announced stock dividend, Apple CEO...

Hitwise: Pinterest Passes 103 Million US Visits, Now A Top 30 Website
The folks at Experian Hitwise say that Pinterest is now one of the top 30 US websites based on total pageviews. In the course of two...

Google+ Users Spend 3 Minutes Per Month There, ComScore Tells WSJ
Wall Street Journal characterizes Google’s social network while reporting new usage stats from comScore. According to comScore, Google+...

Survey: Paid Search Found To Be As “Trusted” As TV Product Placement Ads Are
report, “The State of the Media, US Digital Consumer Report,” Nielsen polled US consumers about their trust in advertising by media...

Facebook Trumpets Its 320 Million Monthly Mobile Apps Visits
In a blog post this morning, Facebook’s James Pearce (Head of Mobile Develoepr Relations) trumpets several big stats about how the...

U.S. Web Users Averaged Record-High 36 Hours Online In January
That stat comes from comScore’s latest ranking of US web sites, which shows that January was a good month for sites in the Career and...

Google+ Suggested Users Get 10,000 New Followers Per Day, But Are They Real?
The suggested users list is shown to new Google+ users during the sign-up process, and can also be seen by existing users at this URL:...

Apple Takes Google’s Spot As “Most Reputable Company” In US
This year’s poll of 17,000 US consumers found that despite the recent Foxconn labor scandal Apple rated number 1. That was followed by...

Report: iPhone, iPad Now Drive More Web Traffic Than Mac OS
Reflecting trends in the larger mobile and PC markets, Apple’s iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) are now responsible for a larger share of web...

LinkedIn Passes 150 Million Users, Reports Strong 4th Quarter
In its earnings announcement today, LinkedIn reported revenue of $167.7 million, a 105 percent increase over the $81.7 million it earned...

Only 1 “Top Brand” Has Created A Google+ Page In The Past Two Months, Report Says
new study by the social media analytics firm Simply Measured. Using the Interbrand Top 100 Global Brands list, Simply Measured compared...

Report: Google+ & The +1 Button Are Seeing Gigantic Growth In The US
A new study release by Compete shows an explosive growth spurt of Google+1 and Google+ that started in October. The study represents an...

Infographic: Google Searches & The Super Bowl
It’s well known that the Super Bowl generates plenty of search activity. But in the wake of 2012’s Super Bowl XLVI yesterday, Google has...

Super Bowl Spike: 12,233 Tweets Per Second Is 300% Above Last Year’s Game
The New York Giants, New England Patriots and Super Bowl XLVI have dethroned Tim Tebow as the sports king of Twitter. Sunday night’s...

Facebook’s $5 Billion IPO, By The Numbers [CHARTS]
filed its IPO paperwork and the S-1 statement contains an utterly dizzying amount of statistics. The numbers provide a glimpse into...

Seeking To Banish “Distraction” Microsoft Replaces Hotmail Display Ads With Deals
Not all Hotmail users will see the new ads immediately. Microsoft is doing a pilot in which it’s testing consumer response to deals ads...

Facebook IPO Documents Coming Next Week — Report
Wall Street Journal, next week Facebook will file its “S-1” and related documents in preparation for an IPO that could raise a whopping...

Reddit On The Rise While The Decline Of Digg Continues
The Social News battle between Reddit.com and Digg.com is nearly over – with a clear winner prevailing. A recent post from...
























