Industry News for Writers in my ASJA Monthly Market Monitor Column

Attention Writers! Stay ahead of the game with a Wordpress website, a strong social media presence, branding your image, building your platform. So many options for writers to sell their work. It’s a writer’s world out there. American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA.org).

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Latest Facebook Stats

Latest Facebook Stats. Facebook now has 901 million monthly active users. Daily active users are up to 526 million.

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Viral Content: Why Some Posts Spread and Others Don’t

Viral Content: Why Some Posts Spread and Others Don’t.

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Population and Online Statistics

Population and Online Statistics: the number of people online around the world will grow more than 45% to 2.2 billion users over the next five years,

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Top 25 Newspapers on Twitter

If you were to rank the Top 25 U.S. newspapers by how many Twitter followers they have, the New York Times wins by a landslide with 2.6 million followers. Wall Street Journal is second on the list but has only 464,591 followers. Read more …  I found this article on Journalistics blog and found it … Read more

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Social Media Stats

Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent in 2009 (a 43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The Nielsen Company. The research revealed that Americans spend a third of their time online (36 percent) communicating and networking across social networks, blogs, … Read more

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How Businesses Budget for Social Media

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Statistics re Twitter & Facebook

100 million users access Facebook through #mobile devices. They’re 2x more active on #FB than non-mobile users. Twitter now has 60 million users. Facebook has 400 million users. HubSpot estimates the average Twitter user now has 300 followers. In July the number was 70. When clients tell you they don’t have time for social media … Read more

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Social Media Sites / Pie Chart Breakdown of Users

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Magazine Readership INCREASED!

According to an ad run by ESPN magazine in the April 19th issue of US magazine, magazine readership has increased 11 percent during the 12-year life of Google. Just as movies didn’t kill radio, TV didn’t kill movies, the Internet will not kill magazines. As a writer I find this news inspiring! Hope you do … Read more

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