New Zealand Tweets more than United States
Posted: October 22nd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Bebo, social network business, Social Networks, Twitter, Videos, Why Social Network, YouTube | Tags: Bebo, Business, Facebook, internet banking, New Zealand, online shopping, Podcasting, social network business, Twitter, United States, YouTube | No Comments »According to Scoop.co.nz and Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand uses Twitter more than the United States. This is surprising, considering how popular Twitter has gotten with businesses and the general public over the past 12 to 18 months.
From the articles:
“…the rising use of Twitter is in line with New Zealand’s growing acceptance of social media as an every day means of communicating both socially, and increasingly, for business reasons too.”
Maybe the United States will increase its use of social media when older people finally realize that social networks are here to stay.
“survey of 1000 New Zealanders aged between 15 and 65 showed 58 percent use Facebook, 18 percent use Bebo, 7 percent use MySpace and 3 percent use LinkedIn. And 88 percent said blogs, streaming video, podcasting and social platforms were here to stay.
The survey also found 83 percent of people used online banking to check balances or pay bills while 72 percent regularly shopped online.”
This just goes to show that social networks are becoming almost as mainstream as shopping online and internet banking.