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If The Twitter Community Were 100 People

Written on August 17, 2009 by Bert DuMars in community, statistics, twitter, visualization
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I like the perspective on Twitter provided by the below graphic created by David McCandless from his Information is Beautiful blog. It simplifies the view of the Twitter community by synthsizing it down to 100 people. It also provides an interesting perspective on what people are tweeting about on different days of the [...]

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2008 Year End World Internet Population – 1.574 Billion

Written on March 1, 2009 by Bert DuMars in internet, statistics
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The 2008 Year End World Internet Population statistics are out and we have now reached 1.574 billion people globally using the internet. North America has the highest penetration rate with 73.1%. Asia has the highest internet population with over 650 million. Overall the internet population penetration rate is now at 23.5% and [...]

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