Social networks and Twitter in Austria
Inspired by Nico’s post and my own intuition I check the search queries for social networks and Twitter in Austria on Google trends. It turned out the Facebook already overtook StudiVZ in September 2008. Obviously this is not connect to the amount of active user and time they spend on the platform but it support the overall trend that Facebook will become the global social network. Besides this XING is quite stable in Austria, but misses out to further increase their presents before Linkedin will enter the market. Twitter is according to Google still niche, but I think you will get a different picture if you check out the Austrian Twittercharts, already a lot of opinion leaders and journalists signed up, again mainly technology, media and marketing driven.
Georg Holzer has more numbers about Facebook, http://www.georgholzer.at/blog/2009/01/31/facebook-in-zahlen-2009/
January 31st, 2009 at 7:57 pm