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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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[Norway] Browser maker Opera this morning released their latest State of the Mobile Web report, this time zooming in on the rising trend of social networking on the go. For the first time, Facebook comes out as the most-visited social network on the mobile Web, but Twitter‘s growth has surged even faster in 2009.

According to the report, unique users of Facebook grew more than 600% during 2009, helping the site surpass VKontakte, the Russian social network that was formerly the most popular among Opera Mini users (the browser is quite popular in Russia and Eastern Europe).

Twitter saw its usage increase more than any other social network, surging more than 2800% in just one year.

Opera reports that social networking on the go is a universal trend, and that all social networks have seen an increase in usage last year, with the notable exception of Friendster.

In December 2009, more than 46.3 million people used Opera Mini, an 11% increase from November 2009 and more than 159% compared year over year. Those 46.3 million people viewed more than 20.7 billion pages in December 2009.

Since November, page views have gone up 10.1%. Since December 2008, page views have increased 223%.

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  • Diabl0

    Twitter growth may be the fastest growing, but i doubt that they can replicate the growth they had last year.. Didn’t we receive reports that twitter’s growth is reaching a plateau?

    Twitter has a saturation point. Some of them are: Interactivity, games, upgrades, more connectivity. As you can see Facebook don’t have this flaws (or at least some of them) and that’s why FB is on a steady growth. Details: http://bit.ly/twitter-1-billion-value-meltdown

    And oh, Twitter has not yet been used on a global-scale.. Another reason for the stalling

    • http://www.blackysky.com/blog Ricky

      some people use it with sms only .. or with twitter client and apps … not sure those reports count that….

  • http://www.duunarit.fi Remontti Putkimies

    Always easier to grow from a lower base. FB still the king.

  • http://nul.co.za Adriaan Pelzer

    The “plateau-reaching” stories was based on hits on Twitter.com. This is irrelevant, since few Twitter users access it through Twitter.com. Most use API’s and clients based on API’s.

    The above post seems more thoroughly researched, imo. It quotes growth rates for Twitter far higher than the other story did.

    Twitter should not be compared to FB, they are two totally different concepts. Twitter is built as a platform to build communication applications upon, FB is built as a communications application. Twitter’s strength is in its generality, Facebook strength is in it’s low resistance to start using it.

  • Chris Cooper

    There seems to be no let up in twitter growth.

  • http://www.mocospace.com Justin Siegel

    Nice report…..I’m glad they highlight that MocoSpace’s growth in 2009 in the US was 58% compared to MySpace’s 25%

  • http://muhammadsaleem.com Muhammad Saleem

    I wonder if the fact that Facebook owns their mobile experience has anything to do with the disparity. In comparison Twitter’s mobile experience is owned by third-party apps providing access through the company’s API.

  • http://www.sclipbo.com/ SClipBo – Social Clipboard

    Facebook is here to stay, as it has limitless scalability in terms of applications and an endless stick-factor, Twitter is just a blip in the reddar of the social web, and it will be replaced in the next few years by something else (wish I knew what it was…)

  • http://www.socialapps.com johnson

    read this rather interesting article from India. http://www.pluggd.in/twitter-viable-business-hype-and-the-risk-297/

    Twitter might just remain mainstream communication tool as well.

  • http://www.stuffprogress.com Stuff

    Facebook atract more utilizators with games and other oportunity, in the social side increased slightly more difficult

  • http://bigevidence.blogspot.com Thom Kennon

    Two thoughts and one question:

    o The most interesting stat here for me is the modest but positive growth for MySpace. that dinosaur of social may yet evolve & survive – as a mobile music platform/community.

    o Twitter’s growth on mobile is more an indication of channel consumption shift than net growth. In the last year I began tweeting 90% more from my phone than from fixed web, and even then, i tweet from Friendfeed and syndicate – so web analysis of Twitter.com never counts me.

    o What’s Friendster? ; >

    TK

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  • http://dailydeceit.com Alan Lunk

    I guess we will one day stop asking ourselves this question and switch to another browser once and for all.

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    This is actually i am think , what you said in article.

  • http://www.kudoscoins.com Reward

    The facebook is really very simple in finding more friends throughout the world.

  • http://www.digitallunch.blogspot.com Nadya Tatarciuc

    Facebook’s mobile audience is significant and yet, it’s worthwhile considering its drawbacks. A recent report released by the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) pointed at the the security dangers and “how to” protection measures: http://digitallunch.blogspot.com/2010/02/facebook-on-your-mobile-think-twice.html. So, what would you think?hink?

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