[Sociam-soton] Re: 'Social Baker' claims FB down 3 mil users

[Yang Y.]

Adding to Max previous email,

Reasons for Facebook Breaks
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Coming-and-going-on-facebook/Key-Findings.aspx

Best regards,
Yang Yang

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On 3 Apr 2013, at 19:51, electronic Max <emax at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:emax at ecs.soton.ac.uk>>
 wrote:

FYI Web-Observatory leaning colleagues,

I remember Nigel asking about sources of information we could use to
get a 'real time heartbeat' of the social web - what's trending,
what's winning and what's failing.

I discovered this site today which makes the rather incredible claim
that FB is shrinking (at least in the short term) across a number of
countries including the US and the UK

http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/?interval=last-3-months#chart-intervals

They have similar reports for Twitter, YT, G+ and LinkedIn.

I wonder how they get these figures -- and how reliable they are, and
whether these figures are gathered by spying/illicit means or through
explicit contractual commercial relationships with the respective
platforms

Yours,
Max
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