Thursday, February 25, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Twitter Nears Facebook’s Daily Status Update Volume
This afternoon Twitter announced that the company now receives over 50 million status updates per day. Compare that with Facebook who states they currently receive over 60 million updates per day. Despite Twitter being a fraction of the size of Facebook, the company now owns a massive percentage of the total status updates posted each day on the web. The latest statistics should revive discussion over the ongoing Facebook versus Twitter war.
While Twitter is not releasing statistics about the percentage of users tweeting on a daily basis, a report published last week suggests that the percentage of Twitter users posting updates each month remains relatively low (somewhere around 16 percent). So what information can we derive from the latest statistics?Twitter Rapidly Approaching Facebook%u2019s Status Update Volume
Despite being a fraction of the size of Facebook, Twitter has a large enough sampling of information on the web since they appear to have the most active users on the web. While we don%u2019t know the exact volume of tweets per user, the top users continue to remain active. The behavior of a Twitter user also differs significantly over Facebook users who arguably don%u2019t post updates as frequently.
Twitter%u2019s Grip On The Real-Time Web Is Significant
Ultimately it doesn%u2019t matter how many users a company has as long as they have the most connected and most active users. Even Google knows that a fraction of the content on the web isn%u2019t updated regularly and much of it is irrelevant. As long as Twitter can capture the most important segment of the social media market, the company has a shot at competing in the real-time web wars.
One important factor that would determine Twitter%u2019s grip on the real-time web is the percentage of tweets being sent directly to Facebook.
Twitter Has A Ways To Go When Including Facebook%u2019s Shared Content
Despite Twitter%u2019s dominance in the %u201Cstatus update%u201D world, one needs to include the fact that more than 700 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) are shared on Facebook each day. That%u2019s in addition to the 60 million status updates. In theory the volume of links and news stories should be included in the comparison to Twitter. Unfortunately Facebook doesn%u2019t break out the volume of links posted each day, but we could make a wild guess and say that at least 100 million links are posted each day in addition to the status updates.
Conclusion
Facebook should be concerned about the latest statistics from Twitter. While it%u2019s difficult to say how close Twitter is to competing with the volume of relevant content being posted on Facebook each day, the growth continues to be impressive. At this rate, Twitter could eventually be a direct competitor to Facebook in terms of status updates and links shared if the growth continues.
Is Twitter going to be competing on the level of Facebook anytime soon? Probably not since their user base is still a fraction of Facebook, however it%u2019s pretty clear that Twitter has some of the most active internet users on the web.
Interesting comparison of Twitter and Facebook volumes of status updates and link shares.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Science Podcast, 12 February 2010 -- Food Security Special
Great podcast from Science Mag. on the risks of our food supply - the first speaker highlights how regulation has hindered our ability to improve technology that is needed to help us feed the World.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
The Smarter You Are, The Less You Click
Sad but probably true. I salute all of you people who make my ad supported businesses possible.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Meet The First Miners of the New Social Graph
Interesting twist - recommendation engines for people. This is the way I primarily find value in LinkeIn.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Best in furniture – Droolr
Giant bookshelf clock
CD/book shelving that doubles as a giant clock. Yes, CLOCK. anka.com.hk 5 days ago
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Untitled
Really interesting. Success in life may change the way our brain rewards us. ( or maybe it's the reverse).
Brain dopamine receptor density correlates with social status
People have typically viewed the benefits that accrue with social status primarily from the perspective of external rewards. A new study suggests that there are internal rewards as well. Researchers found that increased social status and increased social support correlated with the density of dopamine D2/D3 receptors in the striatum, a region of the brain that plays a central role in reward and motivation, where dopamine plays a critical role in both of these behavioral processes.Cholesterol's link to heart disease gets clearer and more complicated
Cholesterol's link to heart disease gets clearer and more complicated
By considering molecular-level events on a broader scale, researchers now have a clearer, if more complicated, picture of how one class of immune cells goes wrong when loaded with cholesterol. The findings show that, when it comes to the development of atherosclerosis and heart disease, it's not about any one bad actor -- it's about a network gone awry.Friday, February 5, 2010
Feedtrace: Personalized Link Aggregation for Twitter
always skeptical that these services will work well, but its a problem that needs solving.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Hitwise Intelligence - Heather Dougherty - North America
According to this analysis, Social networks drive a lot of traffic to retailers. While I think there's a huge opportunity here, I haven't really seen it happening myself, so I wonder how good their methodology is.
Facebook Is Already The World’s Largest News Reader
Lots of talk on the interwebs about this Hitwise data. Assuming it is correct, it is astounding how Facebook has done a better job of bringing feeds to the masses than any other source. However, the numbers also show how much room there is for improvement here. I think Facebook has shown the way, but there is a great opportunity for someone to do it really right. If you agree, just let me know - we should talk.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
MenuPages Launches iPhone App
Oooh... Menupages app. It's one of the best neglected sites out there. This could be very useful, and hope it signals they are going to improve the service.
