Posts with keyword: demographics

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Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network

Tue Apr 22 21:35:00 2008

Collect 150Gb/day of compressed log files from MSN instant messenger over thirty days (June 2006) and you find on a typical day you get 1 billion conversations, 93 million users logged in with 65 million of those actually engaging in a conversation. This is the basis of research by Jure Leskovec and Eric Horvitz. The demographics of MSN users shows that, not surprisingly, they're far younger than the general population. The probability of any two users having a conversation with each other isn't largely affected by their repsective ages or genders. One interesting finding is that people are more
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Podcast Demographics

Thu Jul 13 10:03:00 2006

A new report (click for PDF) from Nielsen/NetRatings gives some interesting demographics of podcast listeners. Broad generalizations aside, the report has some interesting results: 51.6% of people who listen to podcasts pay their bills online 24.6% have participated in online job searches 6.6% of adults have downloaded a podcast and the the 18-24 age range is twice as likely as the average adult to download podcasts. Apple users are more likely to download podcasts as Windows users. Our own data at IT Conversations shows the following about our listeners: 90% male 80% age 30 or older 23% age 50
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