Social networking sites - who uses what platform? We’ve got the data, yes we do!
- 12% of online adults say they use Pinterest
- 12% of online adults say they use Instagram
- 5% of online adults say they use Tumblr
- 66% of online adults use Facebook
- 20% use LinkedIn
- 16% use Twitter
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Source: pewinternet.org
Walking Dead social game hits Facebook
AMC and RockYou have announced the launch of The Walking Dead Social Game, a new story-based Facebook game based on AMC’s hit television series.
NightTag is the world’s first social music app, designed to help people capture their nightlife experience in one place. It combines images of the night, with the music that is being listened to, in the place where it is playing – and posts it all onto a user’s Facebook Timeline.
NightTag allows users to take a photo, while its music-recognition software identifies the song playing and the smartphone’s GPS pinpoints the location. NightTag then posts all three elements onto the user’s Facebook Timeline in one, cohesive NightTag photo post.
Facebook planning to release smartphone by 2013
With the strength of social and mobile games, a Facebook Smartphone could have significant implications for the games market.
In case you need some help figuring out why Facebook would want to buy Instagram, this chart from 1000memories’ post, how many photos have ever been taken?, should help.
In a nut: photos are kind of a thing on Facebook, and Instagram is kind of a thing for photos.
(via chartier)
Expeerience is a Pinterest-style Twitter for experiences. Users can snap photos and videos of their experiences and add them to collections, which can be configured to auto-sync with Facebook albums. Posts can be hash tagged and shared with the world for others to discover. Any photos or videos that appeal to a user can be collected into their own personal collections. Users can search the network to experience moments in time they may have missed or didn’t have the chance to capture in person.
Facebook has 845 million active users globally — about 54% of the world’s online population.
It’s also winning the social media popularity contest in terms of time spent on the site. Facebook users scrolled through their news feed, gawked at photos of friends and played games like Farmville for an average of 423 minutes in December of last year.
Tumblr came in second (151 minutes) and Pinterest third (80 minutes). To some surprise, MySpace (13 minutes) beat out Google (5 minutes). (via Pew: Recommendations on Social Media Not Yet Driving News Traffic)
Source: Mashable
