Check out this fancy mosaic of all my Twitter followers:
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It’s easy to create your own here. I’m sure I’m not the first one to blog this, but I’m sure some of you out there will find it useful.
Also – you might find some useful contacts in here. Most of them are in the PR/journalism game but if that’s your bag, get following.
The latest study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project says that 11% of all adults use Twitter. Well, 11% of all adults in America use Twitter. Well, they use Twitter or update their status online (using Tumblr, Friendfeed or somesuch).
The study offers some great insights but I presume UK stats would be much different in terms of traffic. For instance, Twitter use has increased only 2% since November last year (which the report seems to think is a big growth) but I’m betting UK Twitter growth is much bigger over the same period.
Anyway, the real insight for me was the picture it paints of the average Twitter user – something I think (though happy to hear arguments to the contrary) that won’t be so influenced by the geographic divide. Some of the key stats include:
So there you go. Tweeters don’t look like geeks at all. Honest. Now all that’s left is for someone to do this sort of study in the UK. Or maybe one exists and I just don’t know about it. Feel free to leave comments with links to other useful/interesting/geeky social media demographic studies.
Hitler does NOT like it when Twitter goes down.
I’m in San Francisco at the moment at the global HQ of Flip Video – so will post some more relevant missives soon.
Ever wished you could see demographic charts for social networks? Granted. click the image below to see full size version.
Would be interesting to see twitter stats too – and regional breakdowns, but still an interesting insight.
So, we had the first ever Going Social event at Kaizo yesterday – a breakfast seminar designed as a sort of ’social media 101′ for those who are looking to learn their Digg from their Delicious.
Now, it might not sound big to you, but a presentation in front of 50+ people (all bigwigs from major brands I might add) was a pretty big thing for me – but luckily it all went off without a hitch, and the presentation was really helped by two cool little web 2.0 tools, namely Animoto and Prezi.
Firstly, I used Animoto to create some punchy little vids to drop in – much more interesting than bullet points or screen grabs. Here’s one of them, created to talk about how brands are using Facebook:
Secondly – and probably most impressive in terms of impact – was Prezi. You might not have heard of it, but it’s a new online presentation tool (currently free!) that doesn’t use slides and provides an antidote to death by Powerpoint. Weird? Yes. Cool? Definitely. Click here to see the presentation. I was going to embed it in the post with an iFrame but decided it’s better in its full screen glory.
It might not make much sense without me and Neil Hallmark presenting it, but you can have a play and see what Prezi is made of. Although the best thing to do is probably just have a crack yourself and play around. Below is a quick vid that gives you a nice insight into some of Prezi’s tricks (although I have no idea what the native language of the narrator is – it’s definitely not English!)
And it’s not just Prezi that’s finally killing the beast of Powerpoint. Slide Rocket is probably the most famous online presentation tool at the moment and loads more can be found at Go2Web2 where I find loads of gems.
24th February 2009
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