#demographics (7 links)
- Why Gen X is the real loser generation economist.com
- Twitter Traffic Explodes...And Not Being Driven by the Usual Suspects! (comScore Voices) comscore.com
Reuters reporter Alexei Oreskovic recently authored an interesting blog post about the demographics of Twitter users. What he discovered was that 18-24 year olds, the traditional social media early adopters, are actually 12 percent less likely than average to visit Twitter (Index of 88). It is the 25-54 year old crowd that is actually driving this trend.
- Communities Dominate Brands: When there is a mobile phone for half the planet: Understanding the biggest technology communities-dominate.blogs.com
As of November 2007 there were 3.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions around the world. At 6.6 billion people globally, yes, there is a mobile phone subscription for half of the planet. But that is not really the whole story. So lets delve deeper into these numbers.
- Hill Library Blog: The Entire Communications Industry, in Less than 200 Pages blog.hillsearch.org
The 2007 Digital Economy Fact Book (pdf) is a tightwad researcher’s dream: In-depth, statistic-heavy, well-cited, and freely-available online. One could hardly ask for more.
- New Media Review - Provided by the European Travel Commission etcnewmedia.com
Lots and lots of stats.