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We haven’t had a number report since November 2023.  With this post we’re returning to monthly reports.  This month’s report does not contain any new information regarding the mailing lists as we have changed the structure of the language segments and won’t report those numbers until next month.

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the first day of November 2023. Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since our last report.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

 

MAILING LISTS:

The top 10:

English: 84014

French: 7642

German: 5957

Spanish: 5979

Turkish: 4426

Korean: 3321

Italian: 3117

Russian: 2702

Norwegian: 2232

Romanian:  1771

Dutch: 1536

 

The others:

Arabic:  821

Belarusian:  293

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 902

Creole:  11

Czech: 61

Danish: 93

Esperanto: 190

Farsi:  207

Finnish:  476

Georgian:  156

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  295

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  186

Indonesian:  460

Japanese: 398

Lithuanian:  63

Malaysian: 21

Polish: 970

Portuguese: 1292

Punjabi:  2

Sinhalese: 1

Slovakian: 15

Swedish: 950

Tagalog: 183

Thai:  152

Ukrainian: 493

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive and Interns:  14

LabourStart Correspondents:  677

LabourStart Translators:  97

Africa Caucus:  63

Media Contacts: 51

 

FLICKR:

Members:  839-840

Photos:  10212-10233 (after a culling of off-topic photos)

 

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  130-126

 

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.  Authority for the LabourStart Brasil page has been devolved to a volunteer in Brazil.

LabourStart.org page likes:  unavailable-14071

Global Labour News and Information: 9159-9094

LabourStart UK likes:  unavailable-2137

LabourStart Francophone: 607 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart-de: 500

LabourStart Brasil:  552

LabourStart Turkce:  2116

LabourStart TV likes: 443

LabourStart TV follows:  464-454

LabourStart Vostok:  119

LabourStart Esperanto:  18

LabourStart Canada-English: 173-17 (new)

LabourStart Nepal:  7 (last post April 2017)

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

 

LINKEDIN:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2622-2617

Page: 300-274

 

PODCASTS:

Rather than list each podcast and the numbers of times they have been downloaded we will report the three (3) podcasts that have been downloaded the most times to date.

1. Mar 27, 2024. Interview with Sally McManus, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).  296 downloads.
2. April 11, 2024. Interview with Amanda Gearing and Darren Westwood about the strike by Amazon workers in the UK.  273 downloads.
3. May 8, 2024.  Interview with Khaing Zar, trade union leader from Myanmar.

 

X (TWITTER as-was):

A few months ago the Portuguese, Spanish and Canada-EN accounts were  devolved to volunteers in Brazil, Spain and Canada.  As a result changes to tweet frequency and format have been introduced.  This may have had an effect on our numbers.

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these accounts.  We will have to start again or the erosion of our numbers will continue.

We experienced some decline in accounts that usually experience slow growth.  This may be the result of trade unionists closing their Twitter accounts and moving to other platforms (such as Mastodon).

Global English: 38328-40123 [A technical problem with a third-party account manager cost this account in excess of 3k followers last December]

Canada English: 22604-24923 [A technical problem with a third-party account manager cost this account in excess of 2k followers last December]

Global Portuguese: 10413-10754

Global Spanish: 10517-10614

Australia: 10148-10342

USA: 5103-5133

Canada French: 3316-3325

Russian: 49-47

Hebrew:  50 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 508 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 329-330 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)

French: 224 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 28-27 Placeholder and not yet active.