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Gary's Social Media Count

Click for App Store Page Original Counter and Post from 24 Sep 2009! June 2013 ‘Social’ Update (mobile, games & heritage to come) June 2012 ‘Social’ Update August 2011 Update ABOUT Living statistics – Many of us who have been following social media since the early 90s are very sensitive to today’s exponential growth in usage of the sharing web. If you want to embed this on your page just click the button in the bottom left of the app to copy the code to your clipboard OR use the code/s in the boxes at the bottom of this post. More about the Count – I quickly built and coded the app based on data culled from a range of social media sources & sites originally at the end of Sept 2009. The social web has exploded in the last year and below are some of the social media statistics based on key data points that the ‘Gary’s Social Media Count’ is based on (many will be updated!). UPDATED/REARRANGED Jan 2011 – TAKING INTO ACCOUNT VARIOUS 2010 STATS Some of the sources for the mobile counter

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AOL Acquires Huffington Post for $315 Million AOL has acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million in its biggest move since it became an independent company in 2009. The acquisition will create a new online media conglomerate that already owns news websites TechCrunch and Engadget. According to The New York Times, the deal is worth $300 million in cash with $15 million in stock. As part of the deal, The Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington will be appointed president editor-in-chief of all of AOL's content. She will not only run The Huffington Post, but will lead AOL's news, tech, women, local, multicultural, entertainment video and community content businesses in an AOL entity that will be known as the Huffington Post Media Group.

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Twitter as Well-Known as Facebook, Edison Research, Arbitron Rep Twitter is now just as well known as Facebook, though it has far fewer users, says a report titled "Twitter Usage in America 2010" from Edison Research and Arbitron. Nearly nine out of 10 Americans (87 percent) know about Twitter, though just seven percent (17 million total) use it, says the study, which includes three years of tracking data and a telephone survey of 1,753 conducted in February 2010. That 87 percent is compared to just 26 percent who knew about Twitter's existence last year. (Facebook had 88 percent awareness among those surveyed, with 41 percent saying they had a profile.) Despite the relatively small number of users, what respondents said they use Twitter for suggests it could have a powerful effect on your brand.

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