Le Web Social de Pierre-Julien Grizel

We’re going to introduce a weekly review of social network news.

• This week, hearthquake in the Facebook universe with the (unofficial) introduction of Facebook Lite. Ironically, as Facebook may have been a source of inspiration for many social platforms, it is now concentrating on one of its main purpose (status updates) and removes all the clutter that’s blurring everybody’s Facebook page.
• Another very interesting article from TechCrunch about Facebook Lite.
• TechCrunch gives us a nice (and visual) report on how Facebook has grown in the mainstream internet since early 2008. No surprise, Facebook is taking over the world. Surprising however that Twitter doesn’t show up in this report – but at second thought it seems very difficult if not impossible to track twitter applications usage. What leads us to…
• Battellemedia issues a report stating that Twitter is not growing as fast as before.

Sure that Facebook Lite have a tremendous impact on social network ecosystem.

Apart from that, some interesting analysis on Twitter.

• Sysomos gives a picture of the Twitter population. Not a surprise, most users are not « power users » and do not follow / are followed by more than 100 persons.
• Quite outdated, but John M Grohol has an interesting psychology of twitter article. It explains where does Twitter stand related to other communication media like blog or IM (Instant Messaging). It recalls us that a good article on Twitter is sometimes a needle in a haystack. Good to remember that, and important to do so when trying to see Twitter as a business tool.

Have a nice week!