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Facebook & Twitter: 2010 vs. 2011

Facebook: By the end of 2010, there were 600 million people total on Facebook, and 250 million were new users. Seventy percent of Facebook’s user base was located outside the United States. Users installed 20 million Facebook apps each day. Fast-forward one year later: 800+ million users on Facebook, including 200 million new users. By October 2011, Facebook was as big as the Internet of 2004. In 2011, Facebook mobile hit smartphones and Androids everywhere. Three-hundred fifty million Facebook users logged on from their mobile phones. They also shared 30 billion pieces of content (links, notes, photos) on Facebook every month. By the end of 2012, we’re likely to see an additional category: Facebook users who log on from their tablets, especially the iPad.

Twitter Loves @ladygaga: By the end of 2010, Twitter counted 25 billion sent tweets, 100 million new accounts and 175 million total users. Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) was Twitter’s most followed user, with a whopping 7.7 million followers. By the end of 2011, that number had more than doubled to 18.1 million followers – @ladygaga is still the world’s most followed Twitter user. Twitter grew to 225 million accounts, but only 100 million of those were active.

Tumblr and WordPress blogs grew fast in 2011. As of September 2011, Tumblr received 8X more pageviews than WordPress. By the end of the year, Tumblr blogs numbered 39 million and WordPress blogs hit 70 million.

Where Are The Internet Users? Asia

In 2010, Asia outnumbered all other continents with 42% of Internet users; in 2011, Asia made up 44% of the Internet’s population. European Internet users declined from 24.2% in 2010 to 23% by the end of 2011. North America saw a slight drop off, too, from 13.5% to 13%. Africa grew from only 5.6% of the Internet population to 6%. Latin America/Caribbean, Middle East and Oceania/Australia stayed about the same from 2010-2011.

Websites & Domain Names in 2010 vs. 2011

As of December 2010, the Internet held 255 million websites. That number more than doubled by the end of December 2011 to 555 million. Of domain name types, .COM grew the most from 88.8 million at the end of 2010 to 95.5 million by the end of 2011. The .NET domain names only grew by 0.6 million, whereas .ORG added 1.3 million domain names. The year 2011 also brought along 7.6 million .info domain names and 2.1 million .biz domains.

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The data are compiled directly from information from online advertisers, including data from websites, commercial services, free email providers and other Web properties. “Even with a softened economy, digital advertising is making tremendous gains,” says PwC US partner David Silverman.

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Maybe it goes without saying that the future of advertising is online, but it’s good to know the numbers back that up. It’s important to break down the trend into mobile and desktop, tablet and smartphone numbers sometimes, but it’s also important to see the big picture.

A steady climb in online ad revenue, even in a bad economy, means that the Web is working for consumers and brands alike. Even if it isn’t working perfectly, it’s working. We’re putting enough time and energy into the Web that it’s becoming a real, growing economy. Now let’s go out there and make some stuff!

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The growth beat Gartner’s forecast from last September, which put enterprise software revenue at $232 billion for an increase of 4.5%.

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Microsoft held on to its position as the largest enterprise software company, largely by virtue of its Windows 7 sales, but according to the announcement IBM “would be the No. 1 enterprise software vendor if Gartner did not count consumer sales of Microsoft’s office and operating systems.”

Oracle showed the strongest growth among the top five vendors “with faster growth emerging from its business intelligence, security, IT operations, and data integration and quality tools offerings.”

Among the top 25 vendors, VMware had the strongest growth with 41%. Adobe and Salesforce.com had 29% and 28% growth respectively.

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It should be no surprise then that Twitter’s increasing popularity has led to expanded efforts by small businesses to use Twitter as part of their local marketing efforts. According to a recent report from BIA/Kelsey and ConStat, Twitter usage by small businesses more than doubled between the third quarter of 2009 and the end of 2010. Usage of traditional print yellow pages, the survey points out, remains unchanged.

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Now, nearly one in five small businesses use Twitter. That’s still behind other social media marketing efforts. 48% of respondents say they use Facebook, for example.

The increasing Twitter usage by small businesses accompanies other online efforts. More than a third of respondents say they’ve increased their usage of social media and online advertising over the past year, and almost 50% say they plan to increase this further in the next year.

The survey also found that younger businesses were most active in social media and least active in traditional media. Businesses less than seven years old were more likely to use Twitter, for example, and less likely to advertise in the Yellow Pages.

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Teknicks Reports 94% YOY Growth for 2010
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Best SEO UK Companies 2010 Announced in a Big Top 300 Comparison by SEO.NeT
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The full list of London's best SEO companies is available at: http://www.seo.net/compare/seo-companies/united-kingdom/london These results represent a victory for smaller SEO companies, and have led many to ask why large, well known companies didn't …
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Best SEO UK Companies 2010 announced in a big TOP 300 comparison
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