Five Friday Facts #67 1 Mar 2013 420 million Chinese netizens access web via mobile phone The number of internet users in China has soared in the past year. As Resonance China reports, the number of netizens reached 564 million in 2012, and promises to hit the 600 million mark soon. What’s particularly striking, though, is the fact that many of these internet […]
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #67 26 Feb 2013 Tencent’s WeChat shakes Sina Weibo’s tree WeChat’s growth has rattled Sina Weibo’s dominance within China and beyond. Tencent’s hybrid social networking and chat app has amassed 300 million users in 2 years and rolled out new features designed to garner more. Not just your plain vanilla chat app like WhatsApp, WeChat’s features include audio, video […]
Social Media Week Singapore 2013 26 Feb 2013 Last week was filled with fantastic events and invaluable experiences for all of us here at We Are Social Singapore. Social Media Week returned for a second year, and this time around it was even bigger and better, largely thanks to the efforts of the lovely folks over at AKA Asia. The conference packed a […]
Thanks for your support at #SMWSG 22 Feb 2013 Back for a second year in Singapore, Social Media Week is a multi-city global conference. Connecting social media enthusiasts, practitioners and C-level executives seeking to collaborate and share ideas in a swiftly evolving social media world, the conference will be wrapping up this evening after an activity-filled week. We Are Social Singapore hosted 3 events yesterday, Social […]
Five Friday Facts #66 22 Feb 2013 Sina Weibo logs 731,102 posts during the first minute of Lunar New Year TheNextWeb recently reported that Sina Weibo announced a staggering milestone: There was an astounding 731,102 posts in the first minute of Lunar New Year, where users on the Chinese microblogging channel gathered to celebrate the year of the snake. TechInAsia also highlights that […]
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #66 19 Feb 2013 Social Media Week kicks off in Singapore Social Media Week Singapore is back from 18 to 22 February 2013. The global conference held biannually in various cities aims to connect social media enthusiasts, practitioners and C-level executives seeking to collaborate and share ideas in a swiftly evolving social media world. We tracked the buzz on […]
Five Friday Facts #65 15 Feb 2013 In China, e-commerce driven by prospect of anytime shopping, low prices Last month, We Are Social’s report on Social, Digital and Mobile in China detailed the rise of e-commerce in the burgeoning market. The report noted that there are over 240 million online shoppers in China, collectively spending at a staggering rate of $40,000 per second. TheNextWeb cites […]
Top Facebook Pages in Asia, Jan 2013 [Part 2] 15 Feb 2013 Following the first set of reports on the top performing pages in Asia for the month of January, here are the remaining Asian countries that Socialbakers have reported on. South Korea is nearing its 10 Million milestone on Facebook. Due to the language and cultural uniqueness of Korea, local pages work better than the global […]
Top Facebook Pages in Asia, Jan 2013 14 Feb 2013 SocialBakers has published its first edition of Top Facebook Pages around the world this year. There was a general drop in the numbers of Facebook users across all countries. This is seemingly due to Facebook’s continuous effort in getting rid of fake profiles. The table below shows the countries that saw the biggest drop in Facebook numbers over […]
Tuneup We Are Social Midweek Mashup #65 13 Feb 2013 Sina Weibo sets new record in the first second of Chinese New Year How many Twitter-like posts did China’s Sina Weibo register in the first second of the Chinese New Year of the Snake? 34,977 posts within a second, beating last year’s record of 32,312 posts in the first second of Chinese New Year. According […]
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