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Category Archives: Social Networking
Facebook Hong Kong’s Number One Website
August 19, 2008
Facebook.com became Hong Kong’s number one website as of week ending 26/07/2008. During the past 2 weeks, Facebook has not only maintained its lead but also increased it, possessing 6.66% of market share as of week ending 09/08/2008. Prior to week ending 26/07/2008, Yahoo! Hong Kong (hk.yahoo.com) possessed a strangle hold on the title of Hong Kong’s most popular website, maintaining its number one ranking for the duration of 2007 and first half of 2008. Now you know
Posted at 09:23 PM
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‘facebook’ Australia’s No.1 Search Term
June 19, 2008
According to Hitwise ‘facebook’ is the most popular term searched by Australian Internet users (4 weeks ending 14/06/2008). Searches for ‘facebook’ have increased by 55% since the start of 2008 (weeks ending 05/01/2008 – 07/06/2008). Facebook was the No.1 Social Networking & Forums website for the first time during May 2008. Now you know.
Posted at 05:42 PM
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Social Networks the new email
May 09, 2008
Social Networking is continuing to gain traction amongst Singapore Internet users, with the Social Networks and Forums industry increasing its market share of visits by 13.07% year-on-year, at April 2008. Conversely, during the same period traffic to Email Services declined by 30.72%, suggesting the possibility that Internet users are increasingly turning to social networks for online communication. Now you know.
Posted at 03:58 PM
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How Australians Use Social Networks
March 27, 2008
Hitwise Australia reports that of the visits MySpace, Facebook and Bebo sent to other Social Networks in January, 2008, more than 89% of their downstream traffic was sent to second-tier Social Networks. While the major players hold concentrated market share of visits, there is significant referral traffic to minor networks, underpinning the importance of understanding multiple network loyalties of consumers. Now you know.
Posted at 11:44 AM
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Facebook Catches Up to Bebo in New Zealand
February 21, 2008
Over the past 12 months, New Zealand visits to Facebook have skyrocketed, catching up to local social network leader Bebo. According to Hitwise New Zealand, for the week ending February 16, 2008, Facebook captured 16.01% of visits to Social Networking websites, just behind Bebo, which enjoyed a 17.63% market share. TradeMe, New Zealand Herald and Stuff are all benefiting from the success of Facebook, as these websites prominently feature in Facebook’s downstream traffic. Now you know.
Posted at 04:20 PM
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Perfspot Gets Popular in Hong Kong
January 15, 2008
The top 3 Social Networking and Forums websites visited by Hong Kong Internet users during the week ending 12/01/2008 were YouTube (www.youtube.com), Facebook (www.facebook.com) and Xanga (www.xanga.com). However, social networking website Perfspot (www.perfspot.com) was a fast mover that week, moving up 10 places from 26th to become the 16th most popular website in this industry. The website has increased its weekly market share of traffic by 1490% between the weeks ending 01/12/2007 and 12/01/2008. Discuss (www.discuss.com.hk) was the top website generating upstream traffic to Perfspot, accounting for 14.62% market share of visits. Now you know.
Posted at 01:45 PM
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Yahoo! Hong Kong and Social Networking Sites receive highest percentage of external visits from Google HK
August 29, 2007
For the week ending August 28 2007, Hitwise Hong Kong reveals that aside from other Google properties, Google Hong Kong sent the largest percentage of visits to Yahoo! Hong Kong, who captured 3.56% of Google Hong Kong's downstream traffic, followed by online forum and web 2.0 sites discuss.com.hk (1.91%), YouTube (1.84%) Wikipedia (1.41%), Uwants (1.36%) and Xanga (1.11%).
Posted at 10:15 AM
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Finding Friends Online
August 17, 2007
According to Hitwise New Zealand, market share of internet visits to Friendster (www.friendster.com) increased by 30% between 28 July and 11 August 2007 in the ‘Computers and Internet’ industry. Yahoo! Mail (10.33%) referred the largest percentage of traffic to Friendster, followed by Google New Zealand (7.70%) and GMail (7.10%).
Posted at 09:38 AM
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Social Networking Sites Stay Strong
July 23, 2007
Hitwise Australia reports that the social networking website Bebo has experienced a market share increase of more than 240% in the Net Communities and Chat industry over the past 15 months. As of June 2007 www.bebo.com has 6.03% share of the industry’s market, compared to 1.76% in April 2006. Facebook (www.facebook.com) has also climbed in market share, with 2.96% at the end of June 2007 compared to 0.069% in April 2006, however Myspace (www.myspace.com) still dominates the industry with 29.88% market share.
Posted at 05:34 PM
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Facebook increasingly popular in New Zealand
July 06, 2007
According to Hitwise New Zealand, Facebook is continuing to become increasingly popular among New Zealanders, increasing . Hitwise Clickstream data suggests that the Facebook network for the University of Auckland (aucklandac.facebook.com) was the most popular Facebook network visited by New Zealanders, holding 3.17% of the downstream traffic for week ending June 30, 2007.
Posted at 09:31 AM
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Xanga Second Most Visited Website in Hong Kong
April 10, 2007
According to Hitwise Hong Kong, net community and blogging website, Xanga was the second most visited website by Hong Kong Internet users between August 2006 and March 2007. Xanga accounted for 2.69% of visits to all websites for the week ending 7 April 2007, following only Yahoo! Hong Kong with 7.35% of traffic. Now you know.
Posted at 05:50 PM
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