A Look At The Size And Shape Of The Geosocial Universe In 2011 Mobile: 5.3 billion mobile devices are used worldwide — that’s 77 percent of the world’s population Smartphones: 21.8 percent of all mobile devices are smartphones. Despite what one might think, Apple does not top the list in sales—Nokia does Skype: Mobile usage continues to increase thanks to Skype’s wise investment in apps and its mobile platform Facebook: Now tops 629 million registered users with almost 250 million people accessing the site via mobile Qzone: China’s version of Facebook, Qzone, is experiencing supernova-like growth with 480 million registered users Twitter: Broke the 200 million registered user mark with nearly 40 percent of people tweeting via mobile Email: Hotmail still dominates email, but Gmail is gaining fast Yelp: Yelp is topping 50 million unique visitors per month. Its move to team up with OpenTable earlier this year will only increase its relevancy Foursquare and Gowalla: These geosocial specialists are still growing, but growth seems to be slowing down a bit

A Look At The Size And Shape Of The Geosocial Universe In 2011

Mobile: 5.3 billion mobile devices are used worldwide — that’s 77 percent of the world’s population

Smartphones: 21.8 percent of all mobile devices are smartphones. Despite what one might think, Apple does not top the list in sales—Nokia does

Skype: Mobile usage continues to increase thanks to Skype’s wise investment in apps and its mobile platform

Facebook: Now tops 629 million registered users with almost 250 million people accessing the site via mobile

Qzone: China’s version of Facebook, Qzone, is experiencing supernova-like growth with 480 million registered users

Twitter: Broke the 200 million registered user mark with nearly 40 percent of people tweeting via mobile

Email: Hotmail still dominates email, but Gmail is gaining fast

Yelp: Yelp is topping 50 million unique visitors per month. Its move to team up with OpenTable earlier this year will only increase its relevancy

Foursquare and Gowalla: These geosocial specialists are still growing, but growth seems to be slowing down a bit

1 year ago  Notes (4)
  1. romanzolotarev posted this