10 most popular Swedish businesses on Twitter
More and more Swedish businesses are joining Twitter. In a recent study (in Swedish), I checked the corporate accounts with most followers and came up with this top ten list. The graph above was...
View ArticleFlickr reaches 4 billion photos
The photo sharing site Flickr today reached 4 billion photos. The growth continues to be steady and over the last 2.5 years the site has grown with half a billion new photos every six months. Photo...
View ArticleTop 50 brands on Facebook
The Big Money ranks the 50 brands that are currently making the best use of Facebook. The ranking is based on factors like number of fans, page growth, frequency of updates, creativity and fan...
View ArticleTop 20 countries on Twitter
Twitter doesn’t disclose how many members it has, so it has been hard to determine how many people that use Twitter in Sweden. I tried to calculate a number in June 2009 using a survey by Sysomos that...
View Article55 fascinating statistics about social media in Sweden
Sweden is ranked first of 138 countries in its use of computing and communications technology, according to an annual study from the World Economic Forum. So perhaps it’s no surprise that Swedes are...
View ArticleOptimizing press release content for social sharing pays off
The concept of social media releases and social media newsrooms is not new. By adding photos, videos and audio and easy sharing functionality, the chances that the content is spread across different...
View ArticleInstagram may reach 1 billion photos in April
Instagram, one of my favourite apps, is growing like crazy. In September last year, I noted that users had uploaded 200 million photos, which meant that the growth rate in August was about 50 million...
View ArticleInstagram now growing faster than Flickr
Three days ago I took a look at how many new photos users added on Instagram each day. By looking at the ID numbers of the photos I calculated that Instagram had now reached beyond 500 million photos...
View ArticleThe dramatic growth of Instagram – reaches 5 billion twice as fast as Flickr
In just a little more than two years, Instagram has gone from zero to 5 billion shared photos. The popular photo sharing app announced yesterday that it had surpassed 80 million users and 5 billion...
View Article5 years on Twitter – infographic
Apparently I joined Twitter five years ago today, on Nov 14, 2007. It’s been a fascinating development and back then I couldn’t envision how important Twitter would grow and how many followers I could...
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