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These are very interesting statistics. Impressive with the growth in Twitter. Will be interesting to se how fast Twitter will catch on I Europe.

Facebook is very popular in Denmark, but Twitter, Digg and some of the other social medias are not so widely used yet.

Steen Öhman
SEO Check - online marketing, Denmark

Posted by: Steen Öhman on February 23, 2009

Very interesting ... with all the focus on Twitter, people seem to be forgetting about sites like StumbleUpon (up over 180% from last year) and new sites like Friendster.

With the massive influx of "social media" gurus and similar hucksters flocking to Twitter, it is any wonder that real business interests are able to reach their target audience at all, which is the whole point of "social media" SEM and SEO to begin with.

Anne

Posted by: Anne C. on February 23, 2009

Friendster is not new its been operating since 2003, I think its more popular here in asia than any other part of the world.

Joyce from My Window Treatment Pro

Posted by: Joyce Porter on February 23, 2009

What a great list of statistics. I found it very interesting that digg is still right up there with some of the top dogs. I still can not believe that digg is up higher than facebook. Very interesting stats. Great work!

Per
hot forming

Posted by: Per Josefsson on February 24, 2009

This tremendous growth in social media has a lot of marketers thinking about how they can leverage these type of sites to drive additional traffic to businesses. Whether purchasing advertising, creating company profiles, getting involved in the community aspect of these sites, it is likely that social media sites will continue to attract more and more businesses.

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