March 2009
21 posts
How Many Australian Twitter Users Are There?
Laurel Papworth tweeted: “oh noes! @lucasng we have to make a number up then. Quick Quick, someone give me a guesstimate of NUMBER OF AUSTRALIANS ON TWITTER!”
My guesstimate: 300,000 Australian Twitter accounts*.
Why?
Nielsen Netview, which uses research panels to sample the Australian population, reports there were 149,000 Australian Twitter.com users in Jan-09:
Meanwhile,...
Australia Unemployment Heat Maps - Identifying Job...
Today’s most popular Sydney Morning Herald news story focuses on Australia’s jobless hotspots. The article explains how research from the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) on job loss risk has led to the developement of an Employment Vulnerability Index. This EVI has then been applied to all of Australia’s cities, generating the following heatmaps which can be used to...
Ad:Tech Sydney Speaker Twitter Usernames
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37 ad:tech Sydney Speakers Are On Twitter (updated 12/03)
Ben Cooper: @benhamin (Partner & Senior Digital Strategist, The Population)
Carl...
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America's Top University Endowments: Harvard's...
There’s a story over at Forbes on Harvard University’s Financial Meltdown. Harvard University has over 10,000 endowments, totalling $US36.9 billion, the world’s largest higher education endowment.
Managed by Harvard U subsidiary the Harvard Management Company, the endowment fund is deep trouble, with an estimated 30% drop in value ($US11 billion) come June 30, 2009.
Risky big...
Googlebot Decrease In Number of Pages Crawled Per...
Seeing this across our network (dozens of sites, millions of users), this is a more extreme example of one of our sites:
I wonder if it has anything to do with the custom crawl rate feature that Google introduced in December.
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Australian Search Engine Share - January 2009...
source: data is based on 4 week rolling periods ending Jan. 31, 2009 and Feb. 02, 2008 from the Hitwise sample of 2.95 million Internet users in Australia.
According to Hitwise, Google continues to dominate the Australian search landscape. Total Australian Google share of searches is 92.4%, up year-on-year from 89.0% (total calculated from sum of Australian searches on Google AU, Google and...