Inside LabourStart

This month we return to reporting mailing list numbers.  Over the next few months we will likely see large changes in the numbers as the problems that resulted from several service provider changes are corrected.

Also this month we start reporting on the Bluesky account which was created mid-month.  Currently we have just one Blusky account, a Global news feed in English, but if the site continues to grow others will be added.

As of this month we will be reporting stories posted.

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the last report. 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.

 

STORIES POSTED TO OUR NEWS SITE:

3166 (105.5 per day)

 

MAILING LISTS:

The lists are being rebuilt after some technical hiccups so the numbers can be expected to fluctuate considerably over the next month or two.

The top 10:

English: 84800-84014

French: 7642

German: 5503-5957

Spanish: 5979

Turkish: 4367-4426

Korean: 3321

Italian: 2819-3117

Russian: 2672-2702

Norwegian: 1996-2232

Romanian:  1730-1771

Dutch: 1437-1536

The others:

Arabic:  763-821

Belarusian:  288-293

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 964-902

Creole:  11

Czech: 58-61

Danish: 79-93

Esperanto: 187-190

Farsi:  164-207

Finnish:  438-476

Georgian:  176-156

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  270-295

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  169-186

Indonesian:  385-460

Japanese: 382-398

Lithuanian:  62-63

Malaysian: 20-21

Polish: 964-970

Portuguese: 1274-1292

Punjabi:  2

Serbian:  97

Sinhalese: 1

Slovak: 15

Swedish: 909-950

Tagalog: 183

Thai:  142-152

Ukrainian: 493

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive and Interns:  14

LabourStart Correspondents:  608-677

LabourStart Translators:  104-97

Africa Caucus:  63

Media Contacts: 69-51

Donors:  885

 

FLICKR:

Members:  840

Photos:  10366-10225

 

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  131

 

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

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

LabourStart.org page likes:  14k, details unavailable

Global Labour News and Information: 9188-9161

LabourStart UK likes:  2k-2.1k, details unavailable

LabourStart Francophone: 607 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart-de: 495

LabourStart Brasil:  550-547

LabourStart Turkce:  2k, details unavailable

LabourStart TV likes: 462-443

LabourStart TV follows:  455-465

LabourStart Vostok:  119

LabourStart Esperanto:  18

LabourStart Canada-English: 188-176

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: 2636-2623

Page: 318-305

 

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.

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. 412 downloads: Interview with Carlos Ching-Hung Wang, the president of the China Steel Express Union (Taiwan).
2. 315 downloads: Interview with Sally McManus, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)
3. 296 downloads: Interview with Judith Kirton-Darling, General Secretary of IndustriAll Europe.

 

BLUESKY:

As an experiment we created a global news in English feed earlier this month.  The account is growing far more quickly than any other of our social media accounts ever did.

Our Mastodon experience, as with most people’s, was not great as the initial excitement wore off quite quickly.  That does not appear to be happening with Bluesky.

Global English-language: 5.9k, details unavailable.

 

X (TWITTER as-was):

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these accounts.  If we wish to maintain our footprint we will have to start doing so 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 Bluesky or Mastodon).

Global English: 37321-38245

Canada English: 21637-22574

Global Portuguese: 10131-10381

Global Spanish: 10835-10503

Australia: 9695-10133

USA: 4805-5035

Canada French: 3199-3313

Russian: 49

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 Placeholder and not yet active.