Online Cultures and Offline Behaviors - Part 5 - Social Media's Growing Numbers

Part 5 - Social Media's Growing Numbers


And because I love numbers, here are some links to interesting articles with numbers.  The theme for these articles is that social media is a big deal, and the numbers of users is growing. 


http://technorati.com/blogging/feature/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009/ - This site contains a plethora of data on bloggers and the state of the blogosphere.


http://econsultancy.com/blog/5324-20+-mind-blowing-social-media-statistics-revisited - Mind-blowing social media stats


http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/10/is-blog-reading-mainstream.html - Fred Wilson writes that blogs are becoming main stream.  Out with the old media, in with the new. 


http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/10/the-blog-where-everybody-knows-your-name.html - Fred Wilson has a microculture on his blog. Nice.


http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/10/the-cohort-analysis.html - I love numbers. I love graphs.  Here's some data on co-hort analysis.   


http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/twitter-data-analysis-an-investors-perspective/ - More Twitter data


http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/17/is-twitter-the-cnn-of-the-new-media-generation/ - Information travels fast via Twitter.


http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/11/can-the-statusphere-save-journalism/ - Old media evolving to stay alive.


http://thepowerofinfluence.typepad.com/the_power_of_influence/2009/02/11-of-adult-americans-twitter.html - Who's on twitter?


http://www.oldmedianewtricks.com/ - In old media?  Here's how to evolve.


http://ow.ly/B13I - Three new social media articles worth a read