- Facebook usage in Ireland is declining, down 4.1% in three months Facebook usage in Ireland is declining, with the social network losing 94,620 active users, or 4.11% of its user base in the country, in the previous three months.
- iTunes has sold more than 25 billion songs, 15,000 downloaded every minute Music lovers have purchased and downloaded more than 25 billion songs from the iTunes Store, Apple, as creators of "the world's most popular online music, TV and movie store", announced recently.
- Facebook now has 50 million brand Pages, 10 million apps Facebook now has more than 50 million brand Pages and 10 million apps, according to a mandatory annual report filed by the company on Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- As expected, Facebook reaches one billion monthly active users A few weeks later than this site previously suggested back in January, and again in July, Facebook has reached one billion monthly active users as of September 14, 2012.
- Olympics inspire record Twitter conversation After 16 days and 150 million tweets, the London 2012 Olympics have come to a close. As witnessed by so many other major world events, huge conversation and debate happened on Twitter. We take a look at some of the numbers.
- Facebook to reach one billion users next month Facebook will reach one billion users next month according to official figures published by the social network and a growth trajectory based on these.
- DataSift now monitors Wikipedia in real-time, tracks trending articles DataSift has added Wikipedia as a data source in its Social Data Platform, allowing companies to track mentions of products and services in real-time on the internet's largest user collaborated encyclopedia.
- Android activations reach 900,000 per day The number of Android activations per day statistic is continuing to rise, reaching 900,000 this month - up from 850,000 in February.
- Twitter growth slow among adults, but engagement has doubled The percentage of online adults using Twitter is growing at a slow pace, although engagement among this demographic has doubled in 10 months, according to a recent Pew Research study.
- Google Analytics used on over 10 million websites During Google's Q1 2012 earnings call, Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora revealed that Google Analytics, Google's website statistics service, is used on over 10 million websites.