Active reach in what Nielsen defines as "member communities" now
exceeds e-mail participation by 67 percent to 65 percent. What's
more, the reach of social networking and blogging venues is growing
at twice the rate of other large drivers of Internet use such as
portals, e-mail and search.
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From February 2008 to February 2009, it clocked in at a whopping 1,382 percent growth rate.Twitter (which counts the 35-to-49 age demographic as its biggest, the statistics said) may be growing even faster than its numbers say. "PC Web usage of Twitter.com doesn't tell the whole story," the post by Nielsen Online's Michelle McGiboney read. "The ability to (use) Twitter via a mobile phone--whether through the mobile Web or via text messages--is a driving factor in the social network's success. In January, 735,000 unique visitors accessed the Twitter Web site through their mobile phones. The average unique visitor went to Twitter.com 14 times during the month and spent an average of seven minutes on the site."
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Nielsen: Social Networking Overtakes E-mail in Popularity
Active reach in what Nielsen defines as "member communities" now exceeds e-mail participation by 67 percent to 65 percent. What's more, the reach of social networking and blogging venues is growing at twice the rate of other large drivers of Internet use such as portals, e-mail and search.
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