I do also wonder how much Pinterest use is more passive even than Twitter. Sure, there are lots of Twitter bots and lurkers, but everyone I know on Pinterest complains that they get into an unusable state where they just keep "pinning" things from badges all over the web, but have too much junk pinned to manage/reference/use.
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Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
could you tell us something about your friends/family situation (geographic location, socioeconomic situation, education, etc). i know three (!) people who are not on facebook.
Define "not on Facebook." I have a Facebook account, but I haven't actually logged into it in over a year and the last post made to it was probably 3 years ago.
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd suspect a much larger proportion of Twitter users are things like RSS feed bots, though.
I would really love to see some numbers on that, but thanks to the IPO we will never have any insight into that. They have to make up numbers like that, or they lose money. "It is an advertising-based business. Twitter also sells data. It will generate about $583 million this year. Twitter is expected to generate a little less than $1 billion in 2014, according to eMarketer. Most of Twitter's revenue comes from three…
Fake Twitter Followers Become Multimillion-Dollar Business
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/fake-twitter-follow...
Over 27% of the Top 10 Twitter Accounts’ Followers Are Fake
http://www.webpronews.com/over-27-of-the-top-10-twitter-acco...
5% of Twitter Users Are Fake [reports Twitter in S-1]
http://investorplace.com/2013/10/5-of-twitter-users-are-fake...
edit: 1 in 10 Twitter accounts is fake, say researchers
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/1-10-twitter-accounts-fake...
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#24I do also wonder how much Pinterest use is more passive even than Twitter. Sure, there are lots of Twitter bots and lurkers, but everyone I know on Pinterest complains that they get into an unusable state where they just keep "pinning" things from badges all over the web, but have too much junk pinned to manage/reference/use.
I use Pinterest (http://www.pinterest.com/anthonycreek/), but I'm quite selective of what I pin so I can easily see and appreciate everything on my boards. I also only have a handful of boards.
I see people with dozens of boards and thousands (even tens of thousands) of pins. I don't know what the point of that is unless you are trying to simply grow your following by being everywhere.
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#25(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.…
I don't understand this at all. You read hn and yet you think the world looks alien because most people small hand held computers around with them??? To be honest this sounds like some attention seeking gesture, so people ask you about your "radical" smartphone-free lifestyle, especially since you prefixed your comment with "not that anyone cares".
there's nothing alien about using a smartphone. it's a natural progression and people are avid consumers of entertainment, so when it goes hand held it's a no brainer that it will be popular. Not to mention all the useful things they do.
you're not without social media, you're commenting on hn?
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would really love to see some numbers on that, but thanks to the IPO we will never have any insight into that. They have to make up numbers like that, or they lose money. "It is an advertising-based business. Twitter also sells data. It will generate about $583 million this year. Twitter is expected to generate a little less than $1 billion in 2014, according to eMarketer. Most of Twitter's revenue comes from three…
Fake Twitter Followers Become Multimillion-Dollar Business http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/fake-twitter-follow... Over 27% of the Top 10 Twitter Accounts’ Followers Are Fake http://www.webpronews.com/over-27-of-the-top-10-twitter-acco... 5% of Twitter Users Are Fake [reports Twitter in S-1] http://investorplace.com/2013/10/5-of-twitter-users-are-fake... edit: 1 in 10 Twitter accounts is fake, say researchers…
Even if 60% of Twitter's users were fake they would still have more active users than Pinterest so the title is still pretty misleading.
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#27Pinterest 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…
That's probably 1% of their user base if that. I'm guessing because I've only ever visited pinterest by accident and don't actually know what it's for or how it works.
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#28It's a Phone survey. I'll leave it at that.
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd suspect a much larger proportion of Twitter users are things like RSS feed bots, though.
I would really love to see some numbers on that, but thanks to the IPO we will never have any insight into that. They have to make up numbers like that, or they lose money. "It is an advertising-based business. Twitter also sells data. It will generate about $583 million this year. Twitter is expected to generate a little less than $1 billion in 2014, according to eMarketer. Most of Twitter's revenue comes from three…
>but thanks to the IPO we will never have any insight into that. They have to make up numbers like that, or they lose money.
Do you really believe that private companies are more forth-coming with information than public companies? Do you read 10-Qs?
Being public makes a company accountable to shareholders for just such information. Withholding it, or worse fabricating it, isn't the status quo with a public company. It results in shareholder lawsuits.
Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
#30Other than looking for jobs, does anyone here actually use LinkedIn in a social capacity? I feel like I end up going to their site more from link bait than from actual interest in finding content there.