LabourStart in Numbers – February 2012
Some headlines:
- Six of the mailing lists grew quite quickly – the Dutch list, for example, nearly tripled in size. Lists that grew by 100 or more include the English (+1,242), German (+501), Italian (+476), Dutch (+449), Spanish (+338), and French (+265). The net gain on the non-English lists far exceeds the growth of the English list. The total size of all the lists now exceeds 90,000.
- UnionBook picked up another 106 members while the LabourStart group on Facebook grew by only 8. This means that UnionBook has 262 more members than our Facebook group.
- Our Facebook page continues to pick up ‘likes’ – we gained 338 new ones in February, a growth of nearly 10%. (Last month we picked up only 150, so it more than doubled.)
- Our presence on Twitter, despite spam attacks, continues to grow quite dramatically: in recent months the English feed picked up 200 new followers each month. In February, we picked up double that number – 399 new followers. And our other Twitter feeds are beginning to slowly pick up followers.
- The group on LinkedIn continues to grow every day. It was previously growing at the rate of 10% a month, but this last month it grew by considerably more than that and now exceeds 700.
Here are the totals with the last month (January 2012) in brackets:
Mailing lists (greater than 100)
English: 68,656 [67,414]
French: 4,046 [3,781]
Italian: 3,522 [3,076]
Spanish: 3,389 [3,051]
Norwegian: 2,373 [2,357]
German: 2,035 [1,534]
Russian: 1,630 [1,600]
Turkish: 788 [787]
Dutch: 686 [237]
Polish: 305 [304]
Chinese: 304 [276]
Portuguese: 246 [245]
Finnish: 184 [183]
Swedish: 178 [180]
Japanese: 156 [137]
Danish: 107 [107]
Arabic 100 [97]
And just below the radar:
Hebrew 96 [96]
Korean 93 [93]
Farsi 93 [93]
Social networks
UnionBook –
Members: 4,981 [4,875]
Facebook –
Members of LabourStart group: 4,719 [4,711]
Like LabourStart.org page (English): 3,953 [3,615]
Like LabourStart page (French): 137 [108]
Twitter followers –
English: 5,782 [5,383]
French: 101 [90]
Japanese: 15 [15]
Spanish: 14 [0]
Norwegian: 5 [0]
Italian: 5 [0]
German: 5 [1]
Portuguese: 4 [0]
Russian: 3 [0]
Turkish: 3[0]
Dutch: 1 [0]
Union group on Flickr: 676 [674]
LinkedIn – LabourStart group: 710 [607]
Website
Correspondents: 957 [948]
Unique visits to the site this month : 609,164 [638,240] – n.b., only counting first 28 days of February
Peak day: 27,716 – 21.2.12
Page views this month: 1,319,332 [1,301,326]
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