Twitter Now Over 145 Million Users #mobile

These are some impressive stats for the — four year old company.

We talk about Apple and it’s 250 thousand apps but Twitter has nearly 300 thousand apps.

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When I read Twitter CEO Evan Williams post tonight about the state of Twitter from a mobile perspective, the first thing that jumped out at me what that Twitter for Android, an app Twitter worked hard on, isn’t even in the top 10 most-used apps for the service. But Williams also used the post to whip out some impressive numbers. Chief among them: Twitter now has over 145 million registered users (though presumably less than 150 million, or he would have said that). And there are now nearly 300,000 registered apps in the Twitter ecosystem.

  • Mobile users have jumped 62% since mid-April
  • 16% of all new users to Twitter now start on mobile (it was 5% before Twitter started doing branded mobile clients)
  • 46% of active users use some sort of mobile Twitter experience
  • 78% of people who interact with Twitter still do so through twitter.com — though that number includes people who use more than one app
  • m.twitter.com is the second most-used Twitter interface at 14%
  • SMS and Twitter for iPhone are tied at 8%

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China market: Mobile phone users top 805 million in June #mobile

This is a mind blowing number.

I thought that 285 million handsets in the U.S. was a big deal. I know you can’t actually compare the markets — China has a population of 1.3 billion. The US population is about 300 million.

Amplify’d from www.digitimes.com

Users of mobile communication services in China reached 805.35 million in June 2010, growing 1.19% on month and 15.85% on year, according to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number accounted for 60.5% of the country’s population (user density).

Subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China totaled 304.92 million in June, with a user density of 22.9%.

In June, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 68.92 billion short messages, averaging 2.87 messages per phone number daily.

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The Revolution of Content Fueled by the Birth of Mobile

In full disclosure this is my post on the Huffington Post. Enjoy.

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Over the past decade there has been a fundamental and global change in who defines what information is on the Internet. Web 2.0 is nothing short of a revolution — a climate shift in which an everyday consumer has the potential to become a producer of content. We no longer lay wait impatiently for the next morsel of information. The Web 2.0 tools available to us – allow us to create, curate, distribute and comment. These tools are household names – Twitter, Facebook, the Huffington Post and Mashable just to name a few. These platforms have given us an alternative to the mainstream channels.

The consumption and production of content has become an infectious movement.

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#Xbox360 Profit Covered KIN’s Failure #mobile

So Microsoft reports that they lost $240 million to the Kin. What Microsoft did not divulge is all the research and development dollars that were also lost.

Well somebody has to cover those losses, right? The somebody was the XBOX.

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ZoomTwo weeks ago we reported that Microsoft sold 503 KIN (One and Two) messaging phones in less than two months before the company pulled the plug. Other reports indicated that the final number was less than 10,000, however consumers will likely not ever know the real figures, possibly to prevent further embarrassment on Microsoft’s behalf.

But the company did admit in its latest quarterly earnings report that it lost in big numbers–at least $240 million. “[The] cost of revenue increased $240 million or 2-percent, primarily reflecting increased online costs and charges resulting from the discontinuation of the KIN phone,” the company said. Apparently the number doesn’t include the actual KIN development costs.

So where did Microsoft get the $240 million to bail out the KIN One and Two? From its lucrative Entertainment and Devices division. “[Costs are] offset in part by decreased Xbox 360 console costs and reductions in other costs due to resource management efforts.”

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New Media Brief #18: Cali Lewis goes bye-bye, Google at war Facebook, 1.7 Million iPhone's

On Today’s Show we discuss: Cali Lewis goes bye-bye, Google at war Facebook, 1.7 Million iPhone’s, Apple’s Class-Action Lawsuit, iPhone 4 can you hear me now. Hosts: Ramon B. Nuez Jr. and Zev Mo Green. Check out more at http://newmediabrief.com