At this year's DLD conference Facebook's and Google's algorithms, which have been abused by politically biased spammers, were the subject of several debates. Facebook's Elliot Schrage explained what they plan to do to solve this…
27% of Twitter users just read tweets and…
27% of Twitter accounts posted at least one public message between September 1st 2011 and November 30th, according to a study released by Semicast. This means that many Twitter users mostly use the service to…
Facebook surpasses Orkut in Brazil
This is big news. Orkut is not any more the largest social network in Brazil, as Facebook has for the first time become the top one. According to ComScore, in December 2011, Facebook attracted 36.1…
French local social networks lose ground to Facebook
In France local social networks, such as Copains d'Avant or Skyrock, are losing ground to the big three: Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. So says a recent study by Ifop based on interviews to 2,080 Internet…
Mobage overtakes Mixi as the main social network…
Mixi might not be any more the main social network in Japan. Mobage, an only-mobile network based on gaming and launched just one year ago, has more users than Mixi. 75% of Japanese only access…
How many social networks can survive?
If Google+ becomes mainstream, does that mean that Facebook will not stand up? How many social networks can survive at the same time. Not many. People don't want to belong to several networks at the…
Map of world social networks (2011 version)
We have updated the original version of our map of social networks, which was first made two years ago. Things have changed quite a lot since 2009: many networks have disappeared, Facebook and Twitter have…
Is Badoo the largest European social network?
At the end of last year Brussels held a workshop on EU social networks and EU R&I programmes in which 15 social networks were present. Among them were some local leaders (as Holland's Hyves, Spain's…
Top 10 countries in terms of Facebook penetration
The people at the Social Times have gone thru data from Facebook and ComScore in order to find out which countries have the highest Facebook penetration. This is: what a percentage of the online population…