This post from the Trinidad and Tobago Computing list may be of interest to some. It demonstrates geographical distribution of social network use. It is a nice datapoint, I think.
Richard Jobity wrote: > ******************************************************************** > Computing - General Discussion on Computing in Trinidad and Tobago > > ******************************************************************** > http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=336 > > With the help of Google data, we have looked at 12 of the top social > networks to answer a simple, but highly interesting question: > > Where are they the most popular? > > The social networks we included in this survey were MySpace, Facebook, > Hi5, Friendster, LinkedIn, Orkut, Last.fm, LiveJournal, Xanga, Bebo, > Imeem and Twitter. > Popularity by country (how we got the data) > > Google Insights for Search makes this quite easy for you. For a search > term (for example "MySpace"), it will highlight the regions where that > search term is the most popular. Google calls this "regional interest". > > This "regional interest" should give a good indication of which regions > (in this case countries) a social network is most popular in. > > Google also provides a nice heat map of the results. We have included > the heapmaps for all the social networks below. > > http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=imeem&geo=&date=&clp=&cmpt=q > > http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=facebook&geo=&date=&clp=&cmpt=q > -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.your2ndplace.com Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
