Facebook Applikation fürs iPhone (Quelle: Facebook.com)

Noch im September haben wir über 65 Millionen Facebook Mobile Nutzer berichtet. Kaum 6 Monate später ist diese Zahl auf über 100 Millionen Facebook Mobile Nutzer angestiegen. Ganz grob überschlagen erreicht Facebook also täglich in etwa 190.000 neue Nutzer mit ihren Mobile Diensten.

Facebook bietet dabei die unterschiedlichsten Dienste für mobile Endgeräte an:

• SMS Service – Nutzer können ihren Status per SMS aktualisieren und neue Updates ihrer Freunde als SMS erhalten. In Deutschland ist das erhalten von Statusupdates für O2-Kunden übrigens kostenlos.
• Support von vielen Endgräten – Es werden die verschiedenstens Endgräte bzw. deren Software mit eigenen Apps unterstüzt. Darunter Nokia, Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Sony Ericsson, Palm und natürlich iPhone/Ipod.
• Mobile Websites - Unter touch.facebook.com bzw. m.facebook.com sind Mobile Webseiten verfügbar. Diese wurden laut Facebook gerade erst überarbeitet.

Eine Auflistung aller Möglichkeiten ist unter www.facebook.com/mobile verfügbar.

Hier die Originalmeldung aus dem Facebook Blog:

We want as many people as possible to be able to access Facebook all the time, regardless of where they live or what device they carry. Today, we hit another milestone toward that goal, with more than 100 million people actively using Facebook from their mobile devices every month. This usage happens on almost every carrier in the world and comes less than six months after we announced 65 million people on Facebook Mobile.

Through this growth, we have continued to try to improve the experience of these mobile products. We work with every major device manufacturer and many operators to ensure that we can provide the best possible mobile experience across the thousands of different devices, mobile operating systems and carriers you rely on.

With every new feature or product we bring to mobile, our goal is to offer the same value and user experience that people know on Facebook. Here are some of the recent mobile products we’ve launched with that goal in mind:

• Mobile websites: Our mobile sites m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com have been redesigned, enabling people to access Facebook from any mobile browser in more than 70 languages. With the explosion of smart phones, we want to make sure people have a great Facebook experience that scales with their device especially as people have begun to upgrade their devices more frequently.
• Text messages: More than 80 operators in 32 countries enable millions of people around the world to stay connected and communicate with their friends on Facebook using SMS text messages. Recently we also launched a URL-shortening service called FB.ME that makes it even easier for people to share content. With FB.ME, you can share and access more through services like SMS that limit the number of characters in messages.
• Applications: Facebook is already one of the most requested services on mobile, and we work with every major device maker and mobile operating system to bring applications and integrations to all platforms. We’re always improving these applications and have recently released updates for our applications on Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia and Samsung. We also support a broad range of new Facebook experiences on devices from HTC, INQ, LG Electronics, Palm, Sony Ericsson and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile.

No matter which mobile device you own, you can always stay connected through Facebook using our mobile applications, sites or SMS. Find the right Facebook Mobile product for you at www.facebook.com/mobile.

Google Trends: Facebook, Digg & Twitter (Quelle: TechCrunch)

Unter dem Titel “A Little Perspective (Digg, Twitter, Facebook)” hat TechCrunch die Nutzerzahlen von Facebook, Twitter und Digg verglichen. Aus der letzten Chart wird schnell ersichtlich welche Masse an Nutzern Facebook besitzt, TechCrunch drückt das ganze so aus “Digg and Twitter are just footnote blips in the chart” . Warum noch immer mehr große deutsche Unternehmen auf Twitter setzen und nicht auf Facebook bleibt angesichts dieser Veranschaulichung fraglich. Wir  haben vor einiger Zeit über die DAX30 Unternehmen und deren Nutzung von Facebook & Twitter geschrieben. Im Sistrix Blog sind noch genauere Zahlen zur Twitter Nutzung verfügbar.

Facebook, Virtual Proximity, and the Meaning of Relationships

Kristen Nicole von AllFacebook.com hat einen Interssanten Artikel über virtuelle Nähe und die Bedeutung von Beziehungen:

Face it. Facebook is the new water cooler. We as humans have a tendency to associate with people due to our proximity to them. We chat with our neighbors because they live on the same street as we do, and we see them all the time. We chat with our coworkers because they work on the same floor and eat lunch at the same time as we do.

Sure, it seems weird that your 8th grade classmate hit you up on Facebook. But if that same classmate had gone to the same high school and college, and lived nearby 20 years later, there’s an increased likelihood that the two of you would have kept in touch. Not to say that you’d be best friends, but your proximity to each other would have increase the potential for you to continuously cross paths. These intersections of our lives give us opportunities to catch up with our acquaintances, see what’s going on in each other’s lives, and then move on. (Quelle: Allfacebook.com)

The Most Popular Mobile Facebook App Is For the iPhone. For Now. That We Know Of.

InsideFacebook.com hat aktuelle Nutzungszahlen der Mobile Facebook Apps veröffentlicht. Die App für das iPhone und den iPod Touch findet derzeit noch die meisten Nutzer, aber die App für den Blackberry holt auf…

Nutzungszahlen der Facebook Mobile Apps (iPhone, Blackberry) (Quelle: Insidefacebook.com)