Over 10B Social Network Accounts Created Already 71
siliconbits writes "Analyst firm In-stat has calculated that well over 10 billion social networking and online world accounts have been created by the end of 2010 with nearly half of them (4.5 billion) still active. The growth of free social networking websites like Facebook or Twitter can be credited for the exponential rise in the number of so-called SNOW accounts. Where before, virtual worlds were the realm of paid-for subscription-based gaming services like World of Warcraft, the pervasiveness and ease of access of the newcomers means that more people are creating accounts online than ever before."
SNOW account (Score:5, Interesting)
...rise in the number of so-called SNOW accounts.
What's a SNOW account?
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"...10 billion social networking and online world accounts..."
I would say Social Networking and Online World account.
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Ah, sounds good to me, thanks!
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What's a SNOW account?
I'm not sure either, but it makes me think of snow cones..... Google searching for this term didn't render much. :-\
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There's nothing in the first page of Google results. This appears to be a case of the submitter using an unknown buzzword.
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Oh good idea! Why didn't I think of that. Duh! [google.com]
Apparently a SNOW account [junctionnational.com] is a type of bank checking account for people wealthy enough to leave a $10K minimum in there account. Wait, that doesn't seem right.
Oh, OK, it's about sorting permissions [techrepublic.com] on a certain release of Mac OS X. Hmm, still doesn't seem to fit.
Help me out here, there's a bunch more; stuff about a Megan Snow, more about Mac OS X, none of them seem to fit the nature of the article. At which result in this "google" search you suggested am I suppo
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Just search for 'social snow account' , and take the first entry. Then search for 'social snow account' on that page , it contains instructions on how to find the information you seek.
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What's a SNOW account?
It looks like taco changed the original summary which was more clear:
"Analyst firm In-stat has calculated that well over 10 billion social networking and online world (SNOW) accounts have been created by the end of 2010 with nearly half of them (4.5 billion) still active...."
http://slashdot.org/submission/1515398/Over-10bn-Online-Accounts-Created-Already [slashdot.org]
Re:SNOW account (Score:4, Funny)
No
One
Wants
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login+pass.
it's just a new name invented for the sake of this "study".
besides than everything else wrong with the calculation(and the starting logic for doing it..).. they should've calculated all bbs's too. and forums. and everything. making the average accounts per person jump to such a high number that the calculation tells nothing. they could've just as well said 50 billion.
but they don't want to portray themselfs as online expers, but as "social network" experts. the difference? a social network exper
10 billion (Score:4)
Four billion of which are Twitter spam bots.
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Four billion of which are Twitter spam bots.
I think you might have set the bar a little low... :)
Cool - new acronym to use on /. (Score:3)
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you IANASNOW. Well, I'm not. What would be more interesting to me, from a statistical point of view, is;-
a) how many of those 'still active' accounts are actually 'still used', and how many are dead accounts that people just couldn't be arsed to go through the agro of trying to close down
b) how many people actually own those 10bn accounts? I'm sure that there are many people out there who have a Twitter, FB, My[ ], WoW, 2nd Life etc - so how many billion individual people are actually on social networking / on-line world accounts.
Statistically I suspect that will show that I am still, statistically at least, 'normal'.
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I know you meant roughly "I am not a social networking [or] online world [user]", but it does make me wonder whether Mark Zuckerberg can snow IANA with enough money to give him his very own IP address system. I mean, given the whole Newark school thing and that Facebook has its own AS number [arin.net]...
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and that Facebook has its own AS number [arin.net]...
Pretty much any multihomed installation with multiple distinct providers is going to have its own AS number, its more or less required if you want multipath routing to work well with multiple upstream providers if you want any control over your routing.
I have my own AS number as my house was once multi-homed.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you IANASNOW. Well, I'm not.
And yet here you are on /. posting to a social community under a non-AC account....
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Don't expect to get that info from Facebook. Their profit model is based on the layman's assumption that 1 account=1 consumer.
They can't really get these numbers properly (Score:2)
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These numbers really cant be real...
Then just multiply by the complex conjugate [xkcd.com].
And how many people use them more than once? (Score:3)
I have a twitter account and clear out followers now and then. Most of them seem to be of the sort which sign up, post a link to their secret fat burning system and then disappear (Remove unwanted fat - Deluxe In-Home Guillotine Kit!)
In some headline I saw somewhere, could even have been /., 0.5% do 80% of the nattering.
Squeaky wheels and the cattle who listen to them, I guess.
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>In some headline I saw somewhere, could even have been /., 0.5% do 80% of the nattering.
Probably from /. itself ... http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/31/036255/50-of-Tweets-Consumed-Come-Fromnobr-wbrnobr05-of-Users [slashdot.org]
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So, there are 10 Billion social network accounts and only 7 billion people on Earth. People, there can only be one answer!
Space Liens are using Earth's social network sites!
Alien's, if you're reading this now, you have everything to fear! Stay hidden!
More than likely, you're pretty tasty and if you have an orifice, you're probably a good fuck for many people out there!
Hide for your LIVES!!!
If they're on the intarwebs already they know where you are hiding. Fear not, stout fellow, they aren't here to abduct and probe you, they're here to bore you with the details of their dreary lives on Planet 470932, where life has degenerated to the point they watch Flash ads from Earth for the thrill of it.
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10B seems low. (Score:1)
I've created several thousand, and that's not even counting my slashdot accounts. Took me quite a few tries over the years to finally get a palindromic account id.
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Anonymous Coward isn't a palindrome.
--Bob
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His user id is - 666
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> His user id is - 666
But that would take by definition at most 666 attempts to create...
Ugh (Score:2)
"The growth of free social networking websites like Facebook or Twitter can be credited for the exponential rise in the number of so-called SNOW accounts. Where before, virtual worlds were the realm of paid-for subscription-based gaming services like World of Warcraft, the pervasiveness and ease of access of the newcomers means that more people are creating accounts online than ever before."
Comparing a website to a 3d persistent game world is beyond dumb. While both have a social interactivity component, t
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Penis envy (Score:2)
10B? (Score:2)
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There just may be some duplicates (Score:2)
2009 est world population 6,775,235,741.
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Account != Human.
I know several people with seperate work & personal accounts.
My 3 dogs each have a Facebook account. Back when Farmville was cool, it made things a lot easier.
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This reminds me of a satire (Mad or Cracked magazine) on how the military can create impression of more units than they have. One concept presented are tanks with large mirrors mounted in front facing the vehicle, likewise for the rear. Multiple reflections creates illusion of a column of hundreds of tanks (like what you see when standing between two mirrors). Another were inflatable soldier standups like those that when pushed over they right themselves back up.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dummy/ [wikipedia.org]
The specific implementation presented by whatever magazine you were reminded of may not have been an implementation that's ever been used, but the concept itself has been around a while, and is not limited to jokes in satire magazines.
10 billion accounts... (Score:2)
Surf City (Score:2)
Forever Alone (Score:2)
... and we become more isolated as the number of accounts increase.
Free virtual worlds are nothing new. (Score:3)
Where before, virtual worlds were the realm of paid-for subscription-based gaming services like World of Warcraft...
...except that before that, virtual worlds were mostly MUDs, MUSHes, MUCKs, MOOs and such, which were almost all free.
But I guess that history is too ancient for these "Analysts" to be aware of.