Global Popularity of Social Networks

We’ve had lots of inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tions fol­low­ing our recent post From Idiot to Genius: My First 7 Days on Twit­ter This data visu­al­iza­tion from Le Monde (click to enlarge the graphic) is fur­ther evi­dence of the grow­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties social media is offer­ing brands on a global scale.Note Twit­ter has yet to achieve a scale that mer­its inclu­sion, but we believe they’ll will con­tinue to rise in promi­nence given their remark­able growth over the last 12 months. This arti­cle, “Social Net­works, from the 80s to the 00s“pro­vides an excel­lent overview of the evo­lu­tion of the space. While this digest from Jere­miah Owyang, Sr. Ana­lyst at For­rester, is a com­pendium of rel­e­vant “web usage” sta­tis­tics and articles.

Casual obser­va­tion tells me adop­tion rates of social media are high among early adopters, and while we’ve got a ways to go before a broader pop­u­la­tion tip­ping point is reached, that point is in sight, and we’d all do well to pre­pare our­selves for the summit.

Posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 9:56 AM. Filed under: Uncategorized RSS 2.0 feed.