Social Media is ruling the mobile web
We knew this was coming… but results from a new report from Opera, a Norway-based mobile browsing company even surprised me!
According to the report, 40% of global mobile web traffic starts with popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, hi-5 and facebook.
That number grows to 60% when you look at U.S. numbers - which is not surprising as Americans tend to spend more time on the mobile web relative to SMS than other markets. No Canadian specific data was published in the report.
It will be interesting to see how mobile-first social networking site and utilities will impact this number in the next 12 months.
Other mobile social media sites to watch are:
- itsmy.mobi (and check out the blog & demo I published back in Feb here)
- bebo.com
- faceparty.com
- friendster (making a come back?)
Interesting enough, Nokia’s own mobile social media site (mosh) did not make the top 10 most visited on any of the countries reported in detail within the report. I guess owning ~40% of the global handset market does not guarantee software or mindshare dominance.
You can read the full report here.
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