Mobile Social Networking – 140 Million Users by 2013?
More than 140 million mobile subscribers worldwide will use social networks on their phones by 2013, generating over $410 million in subscription revenues, according to ABI Research’s September 2008 Mobile Social Networking study says eMarketer.
This however, is nothing to rejoice about given that it is lower than the December 2006 forecast of 174 million users by 2011.
Jupiter Research had estimated the number of mobile social networking users at 600 million worldwide by 2012 while in February 2008, Pyramid Research has estimated 950 million mobile social networking users by 2012.
Based on multiple sources and its own analysis, eMarketer predicts more than 800 million registered site members will use their mobile phones to access social networks by 2012.
In another report, ABI Research estimates revenues from location based mobile social networking at $3.3 billion by 2013.
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