Social networking site addiction drives mobile internet access

December 29, 2008 by Admin 

From Brand Republic:

Social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, are seeing huge boosts in traffic thanks to mobile phones, with average users checking their profiles more than eight times a day, says new research.

Mobile phone network Orange said 640,000 of its customers are accessing social networking sites through their mobile phones, accounting for 166m page impressions every month.

Individual users will check or update social networking sites a total of 260 times per month, an average of eight times per day.

Social networking site addiction drives mobile internet access - Digital News - Brand Republic.

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2 Responses to “Social networking site addiction drives mobile internet access”

  1. WebHosts 2009» Blog Archive » Social Networking Sites Dominate Mobile Web on October 13th, 2009 12:05 pm

    [...] sites only saw a 10% increase on the PC versions of the sites. And they’re just just one of many other outlets reporting similar trends. Social networking via the mobile phone is obviously a hot trend [...]

  2. i-penny on October 13th, 2009 12:07 pm

    [...] sites only saw a 10% increase on the PC versions of the sites. And they’re just just one of many other outlets reporting similar trends. Social networking via the mobile phone is obviously a hot trend [...]

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