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14 Mar 10 Mobile Social Networking – Facebook Grows By 112% and Twitter by 347%

In a study conducted by comScore of the mobile social networking usage, it was found that Facebook.com has more than doubled its mobile user base in January 2010 compared to the user base in January 2009. In the same period, Twitter grew by 347%.

In January 2009, 11.8 million mobile users used their cell phone to access Facebook.com, which increased to become 25.1 million by January 2010. In the same period, Twitter user base grew from 1.05 million to 4.7 million mobile users.

The growth rates of these two social networking sites have exploded, but MySpace’s shrunk. The user base of MySpace fell short by 7% of its previous years mark. (See image).

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14 Feb 10 Texting – the Most Used Cell Phone Feature

If you thought it is 10MP camera, music player with 4, 8, 16, or 32 gigs of space, or ultramodern, sleek web browsers that is the most used feature of a mobile phone then I cannot tell you how wrong you are because the old-friend texting—sending text message from your mobile phone to other mobile phone(s) — is the most popular mobile phone feature.

In a study conducted by comScore MobiLens, it was found that 63.1% of the US mobile users aged 13 or more uses texting to communicate with their friends in December 2009. It was a 2.1% rise against the September 2009 data, where it was found that 61% 13+ mobile users in the United States use texting.

The second most used mobile feature was mobile browser, and on the third rung were mobile games. Music featured on 6th place below download apps and social networking. (See image for complete data)

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