The Realtime Report

JULY 27, 2012

Twitter: over 500 million users. Foursquare: over 20 million users. via Foursquare. Posterous: 3.9 billion in 2011 to $16.9 billion in 2011 to $8.8 Social gaming revenue more than doubled between 2010 and 2011, with the sale of virtual goods largely responsible for the revenue in this area.

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The Realtime Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Twitter: over 500 million users. Foursquare: over 25 million users. Posterous: 15 million monthly users. via Posterous. China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo has topped 400 million registered users, according to the Q3 financials for Chinese web portal Sina. Facebook: 1 billion active users. via Facebook.

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The Realtime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Twitter: over 500 million users. Foursquare: over 25 million users. Posterous: 15 million monthly users. via Posterous. LinkedIn’s premium subscriptions product jumped 74% from Q3 in 2011, and represented 20% of total revenue in Q3 2012. The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week.

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The Realtime Report

JULY 13, 2012

Twitter: over 500 million users. Foursquare: over 20 million users. via Foursquare. Posterous: 3.9 “Brands spent a lot of time and energy in 2011 building up their fan base, and fan acquisition was a top goal for many brands,” Debra Aho Williamson, principal analyst at eMarketer, told AdAge.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

In January of 2011, I said that I’d make our Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 subscriber only. This year, I am pleased to bring back our Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 thanks to an excellent sponsor, HubSpot. New Edition of the Ranking Factors for 2011 is Now Live !: It’s pretty exhaustive too.

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The Realtime Report

JANUARY 11, 2013

Twitter: over 500 million users. Foursquare: nearly 30 million users. Posterous: 15 million monthly users. via Posterous. The platform hit 100 million users in March 2011 ( Adweek ), and now has doubled that number in less than two years. The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week. via Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Like last year, I enlisted in help from my followers on Twitter, many of whom gave me some great posts to add to this list. David Armano suggests to study out the candidate first; they shouldn’t just be focused on Twitter, for example. Every year, I can only read so many articles. It’s definitely a worthwhile read.

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