Inside LabourStart

The last month saw another big net gain for our mailing lists.  We are a month or so away from having 70,000 subscribers to the lists.  Here are the totals with the changes since the end of March in brackets:

• Mailing lists – subscribers: 67,542 [+2,163]
• LabourStart’s English language mailing list – 55,971 [+1,735]
• UnionBook – members: 4,495 [+60]
• Facebook – members of LabourStart group: 2,931 [+68]
• Twitter – followers: 2,123 [+44]
• Correspondents: 762 [+6]
• Union group on Flickr: 541 [+8]
• LinkedIn – members of LabourStart group: 166 [+8]

Some highlights from the mailing lists — the other large groups are:

• Norwegian 2,611 [+22]
• French 1,825 [+53]
• Spanish 1,031 [+11]
• German 745 [+7]
• Italian 456 [+4]
• Russian 308 [+15]
• Polish 293 [+4]
• Swedish 222 [+1]
• Portuguese 222 [+6]
• Dutch 195 [+9]
• Danish 154 [+5]