Ben Israel on all things conversational
The most glaring result from the recent Edelman Asia Pacific Digital Brand Index (DBI) is how fast Twitter has grown in Asia. In most of the markets surveyed, Twitter was the buzziest channel, including Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. In China, where Twitter is not available, Sina Weibo (the local microblogging platform) topped the charts. This is consistent with many of the other studies on twitter's growth. One by Semiocast, done in July 2010, found that "Asia is now the first and...
If you're unfamiliar with this slideshow series, view the rest here. Facts that stuck: 500 BILLION minutes spent on Facebook per month. 25 BILLION web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc. shared on Facebook each month 2 BILLION YouTube videos viewed per day 4 BILLION images hosted on Flickr - 13 times more than the U.S. Library of Congress ONE-THIRD of women aged 18-34 check Facebook when they first wake up - even before going to the bathroom (!!) 1 in 6 marriages last year occurred between...