Facebook Users Touch 700 Million: SocialBakers

Facebook Users Touch 700 Million: SocialBakers

According to SocialBakers, which is run by a Facebook marketing firm Candytech Ltd. of the Czech Republic, Facebook is enjoying an amazing growth in Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico and Argentina and the figure of current active users have crossed whopping 700 million.

According to data collected by SocialBakers, a site that specializes in statistics on the social networking giants, the Facebbok users in Brazil increase by 19 million showing 11% growth. This is a remarkable growth in the wake of the fact that there’s a strong presence of Google-owned social network Orkut in Brazil.

In terms of Facebook users, United States is still on the top with 149.4 million users even after experiencing a 4% loss of users in the last month.

INQ Facebook Phone Vows to Improve Interactive Experience Using Social Networks

Few days back we featured here a Facebook branded mobile phone from HTC; which, according to the rumours, was set to unveil at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, Spain. But only after few hours of this report gone viral; Facebook official Dan Rose denied saying that the rumours are “overblown”.

Today got yet another news buzzing around web about a Facebook Phone but this time it is from INQ Mobiles. INQ Facebook Phone vows to improve your interactive experience more than its third-party competitors including iPhone, Android Operated smartphones or Widows smartphones. 

The Facebook’s new mobile phone has a big touch-screen display that aspires to better summarize your experience with your online community. INQ Facebook Phone has an integrated Google calendar and contacts, Facebook Chat through the Android instant messaging interface and the home screen is a comprehensive News Feed.

GoGo Inflight Internet Available on Airtran Flights With Special Free Offer For February 2011

Long flights can be rather dull. A good book can be one way to pass the time, or even watching a movie on your laptop. However, in this age of being constantly connected to the world, being cut off from the internet for a few hours can drive a person crazy. Some airlines have started offering WiFi on their flights, but at a hefty price. Well now there’s one company that will offer you free internet on your flights.

  Seven of the biggest airlines in America have teamed up with aerial Internet provider GoGo and Facebook to offer free in-flight Facebook. Virgin America, United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta, AirTran, US Airways and Alaska Airlines are all participating in the promotion which runs until the end of February.

The free in-flight Facebook promotion is designed to help sway people towards paying for in-flight Wi-Fi. Travelers will only be allowed access to Facebook, with all other Internet addresses prompting payment and an eventual series of back-clicks.

The catch? You’re only going to be browsing Facebook. That’s not exactly all that exciting, but I guess you can at least talk with your friends. That, and spend the flight playing Farmville.

Facebook Branded Cell Phones on The Cards to be Unveiled at Mobile World Congress

Social networks' fans and users are ready to explore the new horizons by using Facebook on their smartphones; as the two new Facebook branded cell phones will be launched at Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona next month. 

A manipulated image of the potential Facebook Phone

The HTC, Taiwanese cell phone manufacturer, made cell phones will run Google’s Android operating system and the cell phones will have white and blue colour scheme compatible with the official Facebook logo.

Mercedes-Benz Have Engineered a Twitter-Controlled Car - - Video Hits The Internet by Storm

The technological heads at Mercedes-Benz have engineered a Twitter-Controlled car. Yup, you heard me right. You tweet, it drives.

Those who think this is fake will be proven wrong as this upcoming viral video hits the Internet by storm. This Twitter-Controlled Car will be a part of a tweet race sponsored by Mercedes-Benz happening between Feb 2nd - Feb 4th as part of a genius campaign focused on social media.

Google Beaten by Facebook as Most Visited Website in United States Capturing 8.93% of All Traffic Generated in the U.S.

Facebook has surpassed the number of hits on Google, as reported by Experian Hitwise, a company specializing in measuring online traffic.

According to a report released by the company, Facebook received 8.93% of all traffic generated in the U.S. between January and November this year. Google comes in second with 7.19% of the total, followed by Yahoo Mail with 3.52%.

The report takes into account only the address given and discards pages belonging to the same company.

Combined with the addresses of a company such as YouTube, Blogger, Gmail etc.., Google, the search giant had 9.85% of all U.S. traffic. Facebook will keep the 8.93%, while Yahoo accumulate 8.12%. Together, the ten most visited websites of the U.S. accumulate 33% of all traffic in the country.

The report differs from that presented by ComScore earlier this week that puts Google in the first place, the sites of Microsoft in second place, third on Facebook, and Yahoo in the fourth.

The Mark Zuckerberg‘s social network was also the most searched term in 2010, according to Experian Hitwise. The site had already achieved this status in 2009. In sequence, appear Facebook login, YouTube, Craigslist and MySpace.

“Hit me up”: Top Ten Trends in 2010 - - Revealed by Facebook

After Twitter and YouTube, it was the turn of Facebook to disclose its list of the topics most discussed by its users within the social network in 2010. According to the report of the company, the term most used in 2010 was the acronym “HMU”, shorthand for the phrase “Hit me up.”

According to Facebook, people began adding the tag to report that they were ready for a date or out with friends. Its use has grown exponentially since July. With school holidays in the northern hemisphere and summer, users began using the “HMU” to self-invite to leave, the report said.

Secondly, the matter appears World Cup, the largest sporting event held in 2010.

In third place comes the Movies topic, which was boosted because of the lengthy discussions about “Toy Story 3,” “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” “Inception” “Alice in Wonderland ‘and’ Iron Man 2” – the five most talked about, respectively, on Facebook during the year.

iPhone and iPad were the fourth and fifth positions. In response, Justin Bieber, games on Facebook, mining, aircraft, and 2011 completed the top ten.

To prepare the report, analyzed the Facebook updates users of 236 countries. According to Facebook, all topics listed have had exponential growth in 2010. In 2009, they hardly existed.

Twitter Targetting 200 Million Users by The End of 2010 - - Presently Adding 370,000 New Users Every Day

It seems that Twitter is continuing to grow at a massive pace, as the NYT are reporting that Twitter now has a massive 175 million users, and are on target to reach 200 million users by the end of the year.

Twitter reported a figure of 145 million registered users back in September, so it seems they have added another 30 million users since then, and are continuing to grow at an incredible pace.

It seems that Twitter is adding around 370,000 new users every day, that works out at 2.6 million a week, which would see the company hit the 200 million users mark by the end of the year.

This compares to the 58 million users Twitter had by the end of 2009, so this years figures are up quite a bit on last year, and if Twitter can continue to grow at this rate it wont be long before it catches up with Facebook.