Tag: STATISTICS

We sort of had an idea that Twitter was blowing up in a big way. As it turns out, though, we really had no idea. According to the Twitter analytics team, tweeting activity has grown exponentially over the past three years, to the point where people are now posting about 50 million tweets per day, or roughly 600 tweets per second. As you can see in the above summary graph, the majority of the ...

We bloggers are well aware of the fact that we spend more time online than is normal, or maybe even healthy. Still, while plugging away in the dark depths of our mothers' basements, we like to comfort ourselves by saying (to the life-size Spock figurines that keep us company), "Yeah, but these days, everybody's online a lot, right?" We should've realized that Spock's silence was just his quiet, ...

Statistics nerds, rejoice! The World Bank, the institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital projects, released an application programming interface (API) for its wealth of statistics shortly after Google introduced searchable public data back in April. Now, the two have married their strengths and brought searchable World Bank data to Google. Google Search now has ...

Facebook's astronomical membership numbers continue to rise, reportedly passing the 300 million mark recently. According to Mashable, the time people spend on the site perusing pictures, updating statuses, and stalking exes continues to escalate, as well. The Nielsen number-crunchers recently conducted a study for the Online Publishers Association that investigated which Web site keeps its ...

Sure, watching football is great, but the real fun begins once the games have ended, and the hordes of overweight, middle-aged men, who have never donned pads or laced up cleats, get to play Monday morning quarterback. Anyone can second guess the coach, and sound like an expert doing it, while lamenting wasted plays and missed opportunities. Two researchers have created a computer model that may ...

Internet, blogs, Web journals, Facebook -- all of these things have given researchers, psychologists and online buddies an unprecedented glimpse into our personal lives. Suddenly, an influx of gadgets designed to communicate our every thought and move are prevalent, and behavior scientists are having a field day. The New York Times wrote on Wednesday about a paper that is being released by a ...

Outfits like Nokia have been just rolling in profits from selling oodles of low margin handsets in developing nations across the globe, so it's no shock at all to hear that those very countries have propelled the worldwide usage tally well above the 50 percent mark. According to a wide-ranging United Nations report, around six in ten people across the globe now use mobile phones, and as ...

The writing is on the wall for landline based phones. We've been heralding their demise since Switched launched. Every time a new study is released on the number of cell phones vs. landlines in the U.S., the number of people who prefer or rely solely on cell phones creeps up and the number of landlines slips slowly, pushing the idea of a "home phone" towards the dustbin of history. ...

When we were ten-years-old, nobody had cell phones. Back then, just owning a pager used to mean you were moving on up in the world. Now, pagers (remember when they were called 'beepers?') are passé, and pretty much everyone has a cell phone. Even the crazy semi-homeless guy down the block from us who begs for change and tells us about how the government is out to get him has a cell phone. ...

If you're a glutton for punishment, then we have the timepiece for you. The World Clock from Poodwaddle.com is a browser based timekeeper that shows the time while also presenting you with a pile of often depressing statistics. Watch our planet's population climb uncontrollably, witness the number of families destroyed by divorce skyrocket and behold the Earth's temperature on the rise. The ...