News In Tweets – October 2011

70% of the global internet population use social networks.

6049 Tweets Per Second were sent on October 6th concerning Steve Jobs’ death

50million Google+ accounts were open by September 27th 2011

463million websites were live in August 2011, double the number registered by December 2010
3.4billion hours were spent online by UK internet users in August 2011
UK government abandons plans to ban potential troublemakers from social media in times of urban unrest
Glasgow becomes second British to city to host Social Media Week
Smoking Gun PR’s Carolanne Bamford dissect’s Jordan’s Katie- My Magazine
Figures show Bing has become the Microsoft Money Pit, losing $1billion per quarter, but Bill Gates doesn’t care
Huge Facebook changes afoot as Timeline and better apps introduced