Using data published by GlobalWebIndex, Statista created the following chart to rank the current 10 most used smartphone apps across the globe.

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Last week Pew Internet released new data that showed who is using Twitter and other social media sites, with Twitter now enjoying an 18 percent penetration rate amongst internet users in the U.S., up from just 8 percent in 2010.

Perhaps most pleasing for Twitter was that the numbers also revealed that usage amongst all age demographics is also growing, with the 18-29, 30-49 and 50-64 age zones more than doubling in this same period.

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Pew Internet have updated their data that shows who is using Twitter and other social media sites. As we noted yesterday, 18 percent of online U.S. adults are now active on Twitter, up a full two percentage points from February of this year, and more than double Twitter’s total user base in November 2010.

But who are these people? According to Pew’s findings, the typical Twitter user is an 18-29 year-old educated minority with a well-paying job, and slightly more likely to be male than female.

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Almost three-quarters (72 percent) of online adults in the U.S. now use social media, suggests new data from Pew Internet.

This represents a significant rise from when Pew first carried out this research in February 2005, when just 8 percent of online adults were active in social channels.

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Thanks in large part to social media – Twitter in particular – sports fans are increasingly turning to the Internet rather than TV to watch games and other sports content.

According to data from the Sports Media Consumption Report 2013, by Sporting News Media, Kantar Media, and TV Sport markets, 63% of fans went online for sports content, up from 56% just two years ago.

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It’s all about market share, right?

Kissmetrics examined the current state of the internet based on overall market share in browsers, mobile vendors, operating systems (desktop and mobile) and social media.

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Twitter’s closest parallel to Facebook liking – favoriting – is becoming increasingly popular, according to research from data analytics company Topsy.

In May 2013, Twitter users favorited tweets 1.6 billion times, four times the amount of favorites from May 2012.

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You may have heard of the internet. It’s kind of a big deal.

How big? Well, stuff happens. Quite a lot of stuff, in fact. So much stuff, actually, that even when you break it down to what happens in just a single minute of the day, the numbers are overwhelming.

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In previous posts we’ve looked at the impact that the birth of the #RoyalBaby has made on Twitter, trouncing Twitter’s most-popular user and making a huge impact around the world.

As the story continues to unfold, Twitter shows no signs of losing interest in even the remotest of details about the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and, certainly in the UK at least, one study has suggested that this might be the biggest news story in the micro-blogging social network’s history.

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When it comes to the world of social networking, one thing has very been clear for a long time: Facebook dominates.

Indeed, with its more than one billion active users and a strong presence in almost every major country in the planet, Facebook is very much top of the hierarchy of social media and isn’t going to be toppled by anyone else anytime soon. However, while it rules overall, Facebook doesn’t lead every key social metric, with Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and (even) Google+ all contributing to a very healthy, and very diverse, social media landscape.

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