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According to cofounder Biz Stone , who spoke yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Twitter now reaches some 800 million search queries per day. That's over 24 billion searches per month, more than Bing (4.1 billion) and Yahoo (9.4 billion) combined. While Stone's company is still a long way off from Google, which supports around 88 billion search queries per month, Twitter is quickly catching up. Since last April, Twitter searches are up 33%. To put that in perspective, a study by Nielsen last year concluded that Bing was the fastest-growing search engine in the U.S. after it ballooned over 22%.
Twitter Now the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine | Fast Com
The ranks of these networkers, dubbed “conversationalists” in a report released today by Forrester Research, have grown in the past couple of years. They’re mostly women, and they aren’t only young people — 70% of the adults in this category are 30 and older. (The report looked only at people 18 and over, so the youngest users aren’t included.) Although Twitter might seem to be the most likely outlet for these conversationalists, Forrester’s surveys “indicate that there are actually even more people conversing this way through Facebook.”
A Third of Adults Now Post to Sites Like Facebook, Twitter Once
Is LinkedIn A Gender Equalizer? | Fast Company
Male Savvy Female savvy Post in the comments and let the data team know what you'd like to see. We've also included how various Internet giants stack up in the Battle of the Sexes , and we've linked the names from our Most Innovative Companies list (Google and Facebook are female savvy; Netflix and Zynga are male savvy). [ Image: Flickr user nan palmero ] So, this is your chance to tell LinkedIn what and how you'd like LinkedIn to explore their data.
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