News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #60 8 Jan 2013 Just how many Twitter users are there in China? According to a recent study, there are only 18,164 active Twitter users in China. This is in sharp contrast to data released by GlobalWebIndex indicating 35.5 million monthly active users. The huge disparity prompted yet another study of the numbers. The latest study revealed a tiny […]
News Five Friday Facts #59 4 Jan 2013 Japan & Korea set highest number of tweets on New Year’s Eve Twitter is big in Japan and Korea, and this was evident when users logged 33,388 tweets per second at the stroke of midnight in Tokyo and Seoul, setting a new record and registering twice the volume generated at midnight in New York and […]
News Breakfast Bites 04 Jan 2013 4 Jan 2013 Facebook Voice Facebook has just released a new update to its messenger apps for the iOS and Android platforms that allows users to record voice messages that can then be shared with friends. It also appears that Facebook is testing a VOIP offering that may subsequently become part of these apps. Read more about these […]
News Breakfast Bites 03 Jan 2013 3 Jan 2013 Hello, and Happy New Year! Here in the We Are Social office, we often start the day by discussing important stories that were reported overnight. We believe that many of these stories have significance for our clients too, so today we’re starting Breakfast Bites, a regular post that shares our selection of the top 3 […]
News Five Friday Facts #58 21 Dec 2012 Social media users in China spent 884 million hours on microblogs Resonance China reported that microblogs were by far the most popular form of social media in China during Q3 2012. A recent study by iResearch suggests that 422 million internet users are on social networking sites in China, exceeding the reach of news, search, videos and other forms of […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #59 18 Dec 2012 Line chat app launches Chinese rival to WeChat Mobile messaging is big in Asia, and Japanese chat app Line has launched a Chinese version called ‘Lianwo’ (loosely translated to mean “link me”) in a bid to expand into China. The Chinese version of the popular chat app comes with most of the features except social gaming […]
News Five Friday Facts #57 14 Dec 2012 Singapore turns to social media for travel & food products Nielsen recently released their annual global social media report, which showed that social media is playing a bigger role in influencing the purchasing decisions of Singaporeans when it comes to travel and food. 68% of Singaporeans turned to social media when choosing a restaurant. More […]
News Top Facebook Pages in Asia, Nov 2012 [Part 2] 12 Dec 2012 Earlier this week, we reported the top Facebook pages in Asia (Part 1) for the month of November. Here are a new selection of reports on the Southeast Asian countries as promised – Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Indonesia reached 50 million Facebook users last month, and is continuing to grow as the second largest Asian […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #58 11 Dec 2012 Indian & Indonesian users have easier access to Facebook Messenger Last week, we mentioned that the rumour mill was buzzing about a possible acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook. Shortly after, Facebook announced that users in India, Indonesia, Australia, Venezuela and South Africa will be able to sign up for Facebook Messenger IM service with only their […]
News Top Facebook Pages in Asia, Nov 2012 10 Dec 2012 SocialBakers have published their latest edition of Top Facebook Pages around the world for the month of November. Last month, many new features were added to the infographics. Again, there are a couple of new features this month, including change in engagement rate from the previous month and top content from each country. Here’s a selection of […]
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