Use of web browser enabled smartphones are rising everyday. Mobile users are using such phones to access the popular social networking sites on the go. This is one of the good indications that some of the day-to-day online services are extending beyond the PC.
According to reports in the month of January this year, about 33 percent smartphone users accessed their favourite social networks websites with their mobile browsers. There has been seen a growth of 8 percentage as against last year in the same period, Web metrics firm ComScore confirmed recently.
In just one year the number of mobile phone users browsing Facebook grew by 112% and for other top social networking site Twitter it saw a jump of 347%.
Senior Vice President of mobile at ComScore Mark Donovan said, “Social networking remains one of the most popular and fastest-growing behaviors on both the PC-based Internet and the mobile Web.”
He also added, “Social media is a natural sweet spot for mobile since mobile devices are at the center of how people communicate with their circle of friends, whether by phone, text, email, or, increasingly, accessing social networking sites via a mobile browser.”
The measurement made by ComScore was only of smartphones and other mobile phones use through the handset browsers. This data does not reveal the 6 million phone users using only mobile applications.
According to the data of ComScore, more than 10 percent of mobile users have browser based handsets for connecting to the social network sites. This is an increase of about five percent in a year.
ComScore also revealed that over 25 million Facebook users use mobile browser to access it. It is twice of MySpace users. Since February last year the mobile users of Facebook has exceeded MySpace. Three months before Facebook surpassed MySpace and became the leading social network on internet. In January this year Twitter attracted 4.7 million mobile users.
In 2009 end 17% mobile phone users in United States used smartphones. This was 11% increase in the same period in 2008.
