A couple of months back, we had written about the Male-Female distribution on social networks. The data was from Google Ad planner, a seemingly credible source, but then it did not give entirely correct results to my own site. So here is another source on the male-female distribution in social networks   Male Female Slashdot [...]

How many senior citizens and baby boomers are online and what exactly are they doing here? Well, there are quite a few active users in this demographic. 28% of American senior citizens (65+ years) had reported going online everyday in Feb and March of this year. Compare this with the boomer population that is estimated [...]

Ever wondered how big Twitter is in your country? With a valuation of over $1 billion and easily one of the fastest growing websites (though it has slowed down a bit in recent times), it is interesting to see where the users are coming from. Here are the top seven countries that make up close [...]

Here is a nice comprehensive picture about what your average Twitter user from the United States is like. These numbers are as a percentage of the total American population in the demographic. Twitter Users : 19% (of all American adult population) Gender Male : 17% Female : 21% Race/Ethnicity White : 19% African American : [...]

In a recent study by GreyStripe, “iPhone Moms” or the mothers of children who use iPhones is found to be a significant proportion of the whole iPhone population. Here (PDF link) are some interesting usage statistics among the iPhone moms iPhone moms constitute 29.5% of all iPhone users 59% of iPhone moms let their children [...]

This has been a constant worry that women are under-presented in the IT jobs. While some have taken this as an issue of ‘glass ceiling’, it looks more as an issue of women seeing this as a not-so-attractive industry – because of the similar percentage of representation across the various IT roles. Computer Operators : [...]

How much time do we spend on social networking? If this study is to be believed, social networking can well be a full time profession for some of us. Here is the average time spent per month on social networks among 18-24 year olds Less than 10 hours : 18% 10-20 hours : 24% 21-30 [...]

I do not have a comprehensive distribution chart for the users of popular business networking website LinkedIn. However, according to a recent blog post by the LinkedIn CEO, here is what we know Total number of users : 50 million First million users acquired in 477 days The last million users acquired in 12 days! [...]

Over 95% of college student in the US have access to the Internet. This number is likely to increase over the next five years where it will cross the 96% barrier. Here are the projected internet users numbers as a percent of total college goers in the country 2008 : 95.4% 2009 : 95.7% 2010 [...]

Facebook and MySpace are the number one and two social networks in US respectively. How do the profiles of users from these two social networks stack up against each other. We’ll see MySpace 18-24 : 32.37% 25-34 : 22.43% 35-44 : 22.21% 45-54 : 16.25% 55+ : 6.84% Facebook 18-24 : 26.96% 25-34 : 23.31% [...]