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Saturday, 31 October 2009

Tonight's numbers are...

Too lazy to do a proper blog post tonight, so here are some numbers...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will be hiring 1000 cyber-security professionals


Associated Press has told employees to prepare for a 10% staff reduction in 2010 (equates to more than 400 news reporting jobs)


The median age of a Twitter user is 31

56% of Twitter users (across all age groups) say they check it between one and 10 times a day. 39% of users under the age of 35 check Twitter more than 10 times a day.


Social media accounts for 18% of the information search market


Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content


The click-through rate for banner ads is 0.08%


73% of bloggers use Twitter

People with Kindles now buy 3.1 times as many books as they did before owning the device

35% of bloggers have worked in traditional media

...gleaned from reading 332 blog posts!
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