Facebook not only for teens…… This phenomenon Social media platform’s fastest growing user group are women 55 and over (increase over 175%) and men age 55 and over (increase over 138%), according to the New York Times
Nielsen announced today a set of impressive new social media statistics - in December 2009, consumers spent 82 percent more time on social networking sites compared to the same period a year ago.
The average global consumer now spends more than 5 and 1/2 hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, up from 3 hours in December 2008. In correlation, the overall traffic to social networking sites by unique visitors increased as well from 242 millions to 307 millions.
The statistics deducted at global consumers, however, it only refer to a select group of countries, including U.S., U.K., Australia, Brazil, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy.
“You mean, there’s a face-to-face side of this whole Twitter thing?” local blogger asked me recently. Yes, called Tweetup!
What is tweetup? According to the oxford dictionary, it is a real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service.
Tweetup HK is basically a meetup organized for all Hong Kong Twitter users to meet and connect in real life. So basically everyone with a Twitter account is welcomed.
