Foursquare.com just released an infographic outlining their tremendous 3400% growth in the past year.
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It doesn’t feel like 2000 was all that long ago, does it? But on the Internet, a decade is a long time. Ten years ago we were in the era of the dot-com boom (and bust), the Web was strictly 1.0, and Google was just a baby.pingdom.com has published an in-depth study of how the number of Internet users has grown in the past decade.via royal.pingdom.com
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Twitter's overnight Internet fame stems from one simple question: "What are you doing?" You have 140 characters of text to answer, and as soon as you hit Update, the site's millions of users can see what you're up to. This small idea has blossomed into a hugely popular phenomenon, with its users covering the entire Earth, developers creating scores of helper apps for it, and a raft of imitation sites. It's growth has certainly been impressive since last year.
Information Graphic on Twitter is an infographic university project made by Melanie Stirner graphic designer from Germany, Trier. This exclusive infographic breaks down some of statistics on years/month, entire tweets, daily tweets, number of signs, crime rate, spam, security gaps, followers, following and languages. via Melanie StirnerNote: This infographic is in German Language.Note for Email or Feed-reader's click Permalink below to download bigger image.
The infographic shows the growth of social media in B2B around the world.
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Facebook recently passed 500 million users. If the growth rate of the world’s largest and fastest growing social network could be applied to solar, it would only take 4.7 years to power the entire world with solar energy.
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It is projected that the amount of digital information that will be created in 2010 could fill 75 billion fully-loaded 16 GB Apple iPads. Stacked on a field the size of Wembley Stadium, that "iStack" would reach height over 4 miles high; nearly 280,000 iPads in every layer.
via wikibon.org
Apple recently opened doors to its newest and largest store in London's Covent Garden. The 10-year-old retail phenomenon is becoming a monster. Each store brings in on average $35.9 million in sales, which continues to rise. And visitors continue to mob them.
via gigaom.comThe world is a big place, but so is the Internet. We know which countries are the largest in the real world, but what about on the Internet? via royal.pingdom.com
The world's largest social network announced that it had reached 500m members on Wednesday July 21st. If Facebook were a physical nation, it would now be the third-most populous on earth. And if the service continues to grow as rapidly as in the three months to July, it will reach one billion in about 15 months—almost the size of India.
via www.economist.com