According to an analysis by the Twopchart application, the number of accounts currently registered on Twitter exceeds 465 million, and the "magic" number of 500 million users is expected to be reached by the end of February. It is currently estimated that 11 new Twitter accounts are created every second.
The latest annual report published by Internet marketing research company ComScore reveals that one in five minutes of the time Internet users spend online is spent on social media.
The platform has registered more than a billion reproductions of its videos throughout 2011. "That means 140 visits per person in the world, 31,000 reproductions every second, or twice the number of stars in the Milky Way", said the YouTube Trend Director Kevin Allocca. As if that were not enough, every minute users upload 48 hours of new content to the channel.
Seven out of ten Spanish users access the Internet on their mobile, according to the III IAB Spain Study on Mobile Marketing, prepared by IAB Spain in collaboration with The Cocktail Analysis. 40% of the surveyed users already have a smartphone, while 8% also have a tablet.
"The Internet is everywhere; therefore, the future of the Internet is actually the future of everything." That's how resounding Ariel Poter, investor (dMob, Blippy, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou ...) and businessman expressed himself, who yesterday moderated the table on the future of the Internet at EmTech Spain in Malaga, the first congress of the Technological Institute of Massachusetts (MIT) held in Europe.
What do Internet users spend their time on? What do digital consumers use technology for and for how long? These are the questions that the consulting firm McKinsey & Company has tried to answer in a study carried out since 2008 on 5,000 Internet users from the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, India, China, Japan and Korea, aged between 18 and 65 years.
Using Twitter to monitor the attitudes and emotions of 2.4 million people in 84 countries for two years, scientists at Cornell University (USA) have discovered that people wake up in a good mood, but that generally the state Mood declines as the day progresses.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
