- From: Rob H Warren <warren@gorgon.cs.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 09:53:51 -0400
- To: Sören Preibusch <Soren.Preibusch@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
Sören, Ran these numbers from an old paper of mine [1] along with some Wikipedia [2] data; not a great sample as LiveJournal is N/A centric, but it is a start: Country | Percentage of total population US | 0.97 Russia | 0.18 Canada | 0.69 UK | 0.31 Australia| 0.41 Philippines| 0.03 Germany| 0.04 Ukraine | 0.06 best, rhw [1] http://www.dbdump.org/~warren/publications/publications_bib.html#mackinnon :uw:sna06 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population [3] http://www.livejournal.com/ On 3-Jul-09, at 9:24 AM, Sören Preibusch wrote: > I think this report uses inappropriate metrics to ascertain the > reach of of SN platforms. The really interesting question is: per > country, which proportion of the population is member of a common > online social network. > > Sören > > On Jul 2 2009, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > >> Top 20 Highest Engagement Social Networking Country >> Audiences >> Ranked by Average Hours per Visitor* >> May 2009 >> Total Worldwide, Age 15+ - Home & Work Locations >> Source: comScore World Metrix >> >> >> Country Average Hours Average Pages >> per Visitor per Visitor >> World-Wide 3.7 525 >> Russia 6.6 1,307 >> Brazil 6.3 1,220 >> Canada 5.6 649 >> Puerto Rico 5.3 587 >> Spain 5.3 968 >> Finland 4.7 919 >> United Kingdom 4.6 487 >> Germany 4.5 793 >> United States 4.2 477 >> Colombia 4.1 473 >> Mexico 4.0 488 >> Chile 4.0 418 >> Ireland 3.8 462 >> Turkey 3.7 427 >> Venezuela 3.7 454 >> France 3.6 526 >> Australia 3.4 374 >> New Zealand 3.4 386 >> Switzerland 3.2 430 >> Italy 3.2 399 >> >> * Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet >> cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs. >> >> http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/07-02-2009/0005054011&EDATE= >> >> > > >
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