As twitter reaches 10 billion tweets this week (check the counter) and Facebook has over 400 million users and over 3.5 billion pieces of content, we find the data that definitely supports this huge success: the mobile data.
There’s no doubt that social networking sites depend on mobile technology, specially when the concept involves updating on the go. comScore released the data today about social networking from mobile phones. The change in Twitter and Facebook mobile users is remarkable as expected, and MySpace once again shows to be losing ground. Here is the table:
Basically, the future is looking very bright for social networking specially the ones that depend on mobile platforms to support and improve on-the-go interactions.
This is great news, but let’s not underestimate the magnitude of Twitter’s achievement of getting 10 billion total tweets and what’s more impressive, 5 billion of them came in the last 4 months. Even though the company has faced some scrutiny about security issues and traffic lately, Twitter is proving to be strong enough to overcome its troubles.
One more thing to know about Twitter is that it announced the decision to open its firehose to all developers in the beginning of 2010, giving ordinary developers the same access to real-time data as Google and Bing. This will open up many windows for new applications and revenue for Twitter, on top of the already great exposure provided by Google real-time searches which features live streams, including Twitter of course.
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