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= Technology in the News = Social Media Statistics Australia - June 2012 Interesting to see MySpace up after a period of decline - perhaps due to Facebook's continued resistance to closing the backdoor security/privacy breach via images linking. Of course these are estimates and need to be read with caution - users who use against users who have signed up but don't use (in the case of Twitter it is estimated that 90% of tweets are made by 10% of users and over 80% of new signups stop using within a month). Snippets - June 2012 1. Facebook – 11,008,520 Australian users/accounts (up 40,400) – 13 million UAVs according to Google Adplanner. The difference between the user numbers and UAVs may be users logging in from multiple locations – home, work, school 2. YouTube – 11,000,000 UAVs (steady) 3. Blogspot – 4,020,000 (down 10,000) 4. LinkedIn – 2,100,000 (down 100,000) 5. Twitter – 1,800,000 (steady) 6. WordPress.com – 1,600,000 (steady) 7. Tumblr – 1,200,000 (steady) 8. Flickr – 900,000 (up 60,000) 9. Pinterest - 620,000 (up 60,000) 10. MySpace – 470,000 (up 50,000) 11. Google Plus – 457,500 approx active users (up 126,164 – estimated calculation) 12. Instagram – 414,000 (down 9,000) 14. Reddit – 140,000 (steady) 13. StumbleUpon – 120,000 (down 30,000) 15. Digg – 83,000 (up 6,000) 16. Foursquare- 64,000 (up 7,000) 17. Delicious – 47,000 (up 11,000)

AAP. (2012). UK reopens Google Street View inquiries. ZDNet. Retrieved June 14, 2012.

Lee, M. (2012). Most Aussies don't wipe stolen phones: survey. ZDNet. Retrieved June 14, 2012.

Osborne, C. (2012). Apple joining Google on aerial surveillance. ZDNet. Retrieved June 14, 2012.

Taylor, J. (2012). ACTA, TPP limit scope of copyright review. ZDNet. Retrieved June 14, 2012.

Tindal, S. & Cheng, R. (2012). Aussies buy into new domain era. ZDNet. Retrieved June 14, 2012. SC Magazine. (2012).// Apaches destroyed using geotagged photo data//. Retrieved May 17, 2012.Information Enterprises Australia = =