Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day—that’s an average of 600 tweets per second. [Via] Given that [...]
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The total worldwide search market boasted more than 131 billion searches conducted by people age 15 or older from home and work locations in December 2009, up from 89 billion in December 2008, representing a 46% increase in the past year according to comScore.
This implies a staggering 4 billion searches per day, or 175 million [...]
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The LinkedIn India member base has passed the 4 million mark, while the global count has topped 55 million. Not all that much when you consider the 350 million+ on facebook, but then LinkedIn is geared toward professional networking, and is pretty much the most successful social network to add value to your professional life.
Looks [...]
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A study released by IAMAI and IMRB has found that India has just about 2 million users accessing the Internet through their mobile phones and other mobile devices on an active basis (where active is defined as accessing the Internet on their Mobile at least once a month).
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Helped by the beta release for Mac and Linux, introduction of extentions similar to Firefox not to mention its blazing speeds, Chrome increased it’s market share from 3.93% in November to 4.63% in December to overtake Apple’s Safari and become the world’s third-most popular browser just 16 months after its debut according to Net Applications.
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The monthly site traffic report from Vizisense for October is out. Here’s some highlights:
India traffic to Facebook shot up 19.35% from last month. Orkut too increased by 4.03% while LinkedIn was up 3.70%. Orkut continues to get the highest number of unique visitors however.
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The telecom tariff wars seem to be working well for subscribers, with a record 16.67 million new mobile subscribers added in October, the highest ever.
According to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). This 16.67 million wireless subscribers which includes GSM, CDMA and FWP combined, takes the total wireless subscriber base to 488.4 million (up from [...]
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comScore’s measurement of the U.S. search market in October shows that Google continues to dominate search landscape garnering 65.4% of all searches, up from 64.9% in September.
Surprisingly, the new kid on the block, Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, almost managed to crack the 10% barrier accounting for 9.9% of the searches, up 0.5% from [...]
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In September 2009, the Internet population in the Asia-Pacific region reached 484 million visitors of age 15+ that accessed the Internet from a home or work location, an increase of 22% from the previous year says comScore. With nearly half a billion people online, the region now accounts for 41% of the total 1.2 billion [...]
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Subcribers to GSM based mobile services grew by 8.59 million in September, taking the total GSM numbers to 344.4 million, or a growth of 2.6% over August, says the latest data released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the apex body of GSM operators
According to COAI, Bharti Airtel retained its lead with 2.5 [...]
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