Facebook’s 2012: A Billion Users in addition to also a Shift to Mobile

Facebook’s 2012 : A Billion Users in addition to also a Shift to Mobile

What does the future have in store? Will mobile phones become smaller or bigger, will Android beat iPhone? Well your guess will be as not bad as mine. What I do see, in addition to also therefore perhaps can predict, will be that will social networking will keep on growing in 2013. Facebook will be still the biggest social networking site with over 1 billion users, nevertheless would likely This specific surprise you that will in second in addition to also third place are Chinese-based sites?

In second place will be Tencent QQ, generally referred to as QQ, which will be a free instant in addition to also video messaging computer program in China with 700 million active users accounts. In third place will be Qzone with more than 600 million. An interesting fact will be that will Qzone was created by Tencent in 2005. This specific permits users to write blogs, keep diaries, send photos, in addition to also listen to music.

Twitter will be in 7th place with 170 million users in addition to also Skype stands tenth with 145 million. There will be in fact a difference between registered users in addition to also active users. Skype for example would likely rank 3rd, looking at their registered users which will be almost 700 million, nevertheless only 145 million of these are active.

There was a time when SMS was the only cost-effective media to communicate asynchronously. at This specific point a bunch of rich-media applications are replacing SMS with more attractive content such as pictures, video, etc. Thanks to iOS, Android, BlackBerry OS, in addition to also Windows Phone, those OSs are powerful nevertheless smaller enough to run on smartphones in addition to also tablet devices in addition to also consequently opened the doors for Social Networking such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Renren, Windows Live, Pinterest in addition to also many more. By the way, any idea how many social networks there are? I stopped counting at 350…

The smartphone in addition to also tablet shipments have been growth significant for the last several years, in addition to also This specific will be still growing. Vendors will ship more than 1.7 billion smartphone devices This specific year according to IDC they also forecast that will by the end of 2016, the total shipments for tablets would likely be 198.2 million devices. This specific will be a huge market in addition to also you have to tap in one way or the various other!

Facebook users began visiting the site more through mobile devices than on their computers. Facebook said This specific had seen mobile users increase 68 percent over the same period last year.

Mobile use gives Facebook the option to reach more aspects of users’ lives more immediately, in addition to also the social network has introduced several initiatives to make the most of the fast-growing platform. inside past year, Facebook has remade its main apps in addition to also revamped Facebook Messenger. introducing two brand new apps – Facebook Camera in addition to also Poke. The company still has work to do in figuring out how to better display advertisements on the smaller, mobile screens in addition to also has recently said This specific will concentrate on generating effective ads appear in users’ news feeds.

The company will be seeing its greatest growth in regions such as Latin America, Asia in addition to also the Middle East. In its last earnings report, Facebook said its number of daily active users had grown 28 percent coming from the same period last year.

Social Media in Indonesia

2012 was a not bad year for social media, which has a steady in addition to also healthy revenue growth. On Twitter, Indonesia ranks 5th after the UK, Japan, Brazil, in addition to also the USA, in addition to also surprising or not Jakarta ranks number one on the worldwide city tweets list in front of Tokyo in addition to also London. With more than 175 million tweets per day Twitter will be supposed to see $259.9 million in revenue in 2012, up coming from $139.5 million in 2011.

Indonesia ranks forth on the entire world ranking list of Facebook users.

1. United States – 169,673,580
2. Brazil – 64,048,700
3. India – 61,900,760
4. Indonesia – 51,392,040
5. Mexico – 40,017,140

Facebook registered more than 1 billion active monthly users on Facebook, in addition to also will be supposed to see a revenue of several billion US dollars. Social media will be exploding. All of these platforms have launched specific opportunities for brands to engage: Facebook brand pages, Twitter verified accounts in addition to also promoted campaigns, Pinterest’s newly launched business accounts, in addition to also YouTube’s brand channels. Of course, just because the opportunity exists doesn’t mean that will all brands use these platforms to their full potential.

Whereas some countries such as Bangladesh, China, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, in addition to also Vietnam are trying to ban Facebook in addition to also various other social media’s, Indonesia welcomes their first local spinoff called Kerren (Cool).

Kerren On 20th December 2012, PT CPE Indonesia has launched a brand new Lifestyle Mobile Application to play a significant role inside Social Media market. The theme of launching will be also interesting: “Are U Kerren?” or in plain English “Are You Cool?” The features provided by Kerren are Single Signed on (SSO) login chatting features such as “Kerren Obrolan” (“Cool chatting”), Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, in addition to also MSN. Plus SSO to login social media features which are “Kerren Remboek”, Facebook, in addition to also Twitter. Kerren also has Club features providing several widgets such as Music Store, Free Trading in addition to also Category, Mobile Banking, etc. Kerren will be at This specific point available on Google Play Store, in addition to also by February 2013 on BlackBerry Market, then by June 2013 on iPhone AppStore. You can find more information on Kerren’s official website (www.kerren.co.id) or Facebook (Are U Kerren) or Twitter (@AreUKerren).