Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
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Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#2(Not that anyone cares, but:) I'm a 23 year-old without social media or smartphone. I consider myself a science experiment. The world is looking more alien to me every single day.
For example: last night I was watching the Vergecast [1]. The last episode is literally 90 minutes of four adult men bitching about social media smartphone apps! It's insane.
[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/12/5204758/the-vergecast-105...
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#3If you look at the 'Frequency of social media site use' graph though Twitter is far more popular on a daily basis than Pinterest. This seems a more significant statistic.
http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/screen-s...
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#4This sounded... difficult to believe, so I thought I'd read the actual report on the Pew website.[0]
They seem to use "social media website" interchangeably with the actual apps in question, and their methodology writeup doesn't mention the actual questions they asked in their telephone surveys.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if more people used the Pinterest website more than the Twitter website, as the latter seems more oriented to being a website. It would appear that Twitter has way more users overall as compared to Pinterest though.
Pinterest: "50 million unique monthly users worldwide" [1]
Twitter: 117 million monthly active tweeting users [2]
[0] http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Social-Media-Update/Main...
[1] http://allthingsd.com/20131023/pinterest-does-another-massiv...
[2] http://blog.peerreach.com/2013/11/4-ways-how-twitter-can-kee...
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#5If you look at the 'Frequency of social media site use' graph though Twitter is far more popular on a daily basis than Pinterest. This seems a more significant statistic. http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/screen-s...
Significant in what way? Pinterest users are (often, not always) looking to buy things.
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#6(Not that anyone cares, but:) I'm a 23 year-old without social media or smartphone. I consider myself a science experiment. The world is looking more alien to me every single day. For example: last night I was watching the Vergecast [1]. The last episode is literally 90 minutes of four adult men bitching about social media smartphone apps! It's insane. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/12/5204758/the-vergecast-105.…
If you're watching the Vergecast and posting about it on HN then you're not that much of an outsider as you think you are. No one of my friends or family your age are on Twitter or Pinterest and maybe half are on Facebook. It's easy to think the whole world is into social media when you're reading about it every day, but the majority of people have no idea what any of this means or are even remotely interested in it.
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#7If you look at the 'Frequency of social media site use' graph though Twitter is far more popular on a daily basis than Pinterest. This seems a more significant statistic. http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/screen-s...
Significant in what way? Pinterest users are (often, not always) looking to buy things.
Significant in that the title is "Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity..." so if you decide to judge popularity by page requests then I suspect twitter may be more 'popular' than Pinterest.
This theory is backed up by http://www.alexa.com/topsites/global;0 where Twitter is 12th and Pinterest is 30th.
Of course, popularity doesn't pay the bills!
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#8(Not that anyone cares, but:) I'm a 23 year-old without social media or smartphone. I consider myself a science experiment. The world is looking more alien to me every single day. For example: last night I was watching the Vergecast [1]. The last episode is literally 90 minutes of four adult men bitching about social media smartphone apps! It's insane. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/12/5204758/the-vergecast-105.…
If you're watching the Vergecast and posting about it on HN then you're not that much of an outsider as you think you are. No one of my friends or family your age are on Twitter or Pinterest and maybe half are on Facebook. It's easy to think the whole world is into social media when you're reading about it every day, but the majority of people have no idea what any of this means or are even remotely interested in it.
That would be good news. (Although I'm pretty sure almost every 23 year-old here has Facebook.)
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#9Pinterest is actually a fantastic resource for finding visual inspiration e.g. illustrations, graphic design, typography, product design, app design etc.
A lot of people think it's filled with mostly cupcakes and kitten pics (I used to think that too), but it's actually one of the best places to visit online if you're doing visual research.
If you're interested in the above design topics, here are some example boards to help you start browsing:
http://www.creativebloq.com/inspiration/pinterest-boards-812...
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#10This sounded... difficult to believe, so I thought I'd read the actual report on the Pew website.[0] They seem to use "social media website" interchangeably with the actual apps in question, and their methodology writeup doesn't mention the actual questions they asked in their telephone surveys. I wouldn't be surprised at all if more people used the Pinterest website more than the Twitter website, as the latter seems…
I'd suspect a much larger proportion of Twitter users are things like RSS feed bots, though.