Comments on: Professionally Speaking Magazine - Fall 2009 http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2009/11/10/professionally-speaking-magazine-fall-2009/ "...a new favorite blog for professional excellence in public speaking, speech-writing, and executive communications." - The Register, May 24, 2008 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:23:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jeremy Jacobs http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2009/11/10/professionally-speaking-magazine-fall-2009/#comment-189607 Jeremy Jacobs Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:06:39 +0000 http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/?p=1759#comment-189607 There certainly appears to be a vast difference in percentages. All depends who you speak to! I think the UK is a way behind the US with Twitter "for business". Very few firms and individuals appear to be taking up this new medium of communication. There certainly appears to be a vast difference in percentages. All depends who you speak to!

I think the UK is a way behind the US with Twitter “for business”. Very few firms and individuals appear to be taking up this new medium of communication.

]]> By: Ian http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2009/11/10/professionally-speaking-magazine-fall-2009/#comment-189581 Ian Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:53:59 +0000 http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/?p=1759#comment-189581 Jeremy: The stats on Twitter growth are all over the map. I found <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/03/16/twitter-growth-rate-versus-facebook/" rel="nofollow">this reference</a> to a staggering 1,328% growth in Twitter year-over-year. However, there is also a <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/06/on-twitter-most-people-are-sheep-80-percent-of-accounts-have-fewer-than-10-follower/" rel="nofollow">significant abandonment rate</a>. So 40% seemed like a conservative statement I could make in my article. (Truth is, I read it somewhere and did not keep a record of the source...) In terms of worldwide use <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-twitters-boom-around-the-world-2009-8" rel="nofollow">this chart</a> shows about half the users are based in the USA. Jeremy:

The stats on Twitter growth are all over the map. I found this reference to a staggering 1,328% growth in Twitter year-over-year. However, there is also a significant abandonment rate. So 40% seemed like a conservative statement I could make in my article. (Truth is, I read it somewhere and did not keep a record of the source…)

In terms of worldwide use this chart shows about half the users are based in the USA.

]]> By: Jeremy Jacobs http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2009/11/10/professionally-speaking-magazine-fall-2009/#comment-189557 Jeremy Jacobs Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:57:21 +0000 http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/?p=1759#comment-189557 You wrote: "Twitter is growing at a rate of more than 40% a month" - where did you get this figure from? Does it apply to the USA or worldwide? You wrote: “Twitter is growing at a rate of more than 40% a month” - where did you get this figure from? Does it apply to the USA or worldwide?

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