Mobile Social Web: 975 Million Users By 2012

Sunday, February 1, 2009  //  0 Comments  //  Asides, Emerging Trends, Mobile 2.0, Mobile Trends, Surveys and Data

Interesting commentary from ReadWriteWeb…
The next big trend for social networking is the rise of the mobile social network. Gen Y’s cell phone addiction has given way to a proliferation of these mobile networks, each one trying to be the MySpace of the mobile web. The number of users on these services is growing fast – [...]

Social networking site addiction drives mobile internet access

Monday, December 29, 2008  //  3 Comments  //  Mobile 2.0, Mobile Apps, Mobile Trends, Social Media, Surveys and Data

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 [...]