{"id":2152,"date":"2012-02-29T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2012-02-29T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:15:37","slug":"labourstart-in-numbers-february-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2152","title":{"rendered":"LabourStart in Numbers &#8211; February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some headlines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Six of the <strong>mailing lists<\/strong> grew quite quickly &#8211; the Dutch list, for example, nearly tripled in size. \u00a0Lists that grew by 100 or more include the English (+1,242), German (+501), Italian (+476), Dutch (+449), Spanish (+338), \u00a0and French (+265). \u00a0The net gain on the non-English lists <strong>far exceeds<\/strong> the growth of the English list. \u00a0The total size of all the lists now exceeds <strong>90,000<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>UnionBook<\/strong> picked up another 106 members while the LabourStart group on <strong>Facebook<\/strong> grew by only 8. \u00a0This means that UnionBook has 262 more members than our Facebook group.<\/li>\n<li>Our <strong>Facebook page<\/strong> continues to pick up &#8216;likes&#8217; &#8211; we gained 338 new ones in February, a growth of nearly 10%. \u00a0(Last month we picked up only 150, so it more than doubled.)<\/li>\n<li>Our presence on <strong>Twitter<\/strong>, despite spam attacks, continues to grow quite dramatically: in recent months the English feed picked up 200 new followers each month. \u00a0In February, we picked up double that number &#8211; 399 new followers. \u00a0And our other Twitter feeds are beginning to slowly pick up followers.<\/li>\n<li>The group on <strong>LinkedIn<\/strong> continues to grow every day. \u00a0It 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the totals with the last month (January 2012) in brackets:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mailing lists (greater than 100)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>English: 68,656 [67,414]<br \/>\nFrench: 4,046 [3,781]<br \/>\nItalian: 3,522 [3,076]<br \/>\nSpanish: 3,389 [3,051]<br \/>\nNorwegian: 2,373 [2,357]<br \/>\nGerman: 2,035 [1,534]<br \/>\nRussian: 1,630 [1,600]<br \/>\nTurkish: 788 [787]<br \/>\nDutch: 686 [237]<br \/>\nPolish: 305 [304]<br \/>\nChinese: 304 [276]<br \/>\nPortuguese: 246 [245]<br \/>\nFinnish: 184 [183]<br \/>\nSwedish: 178 [180]<br \/>\nJapanese: 156 [137]<br \/>\nDanish: 107 [107]<br \/>\nArabic 100 [97]<\/p>\n<p>And just below the radar:<\/p>\n<p>Hebrew 96 [96]<br \/>\nKorean 93 [93]<br \/>\nFarsi 93 [93]<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Social networks<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UnionBook<\/strong><\/em> \u2013<br \/>\nMembers: 4,981 [4,875]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Facebook<\/em><\/strong> \u2013<br \/>\nMembers of LabourStart group: 4,719 [4,711]<br \/>\nLike LabourStart.org page (English): 3,953 [3,615]<br \/>\nLike LabourStart page (French): 137 [108]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Twitter <\/em><\/strong>followers &#8211;<br \/>\nEnglish: 5,782 [5,383]<br \/>\nFrench: 101 [90]<br \/>\nJapanese: 15 [15]<br \/>\nSpanish: 14 [0]<br \/>\nNorwegian: 5 [0]<br \/>\nItalian: 5 [0]<br \/>\nGerman: 5 [1]<br \/>\nPortuguese: 4 [0]<br \/>\nRussian: 3 [0]<br \/>\nTurkish: 3[0]<br \/>\nDutch: 1 [0]<\/p>\n<p>Union group on <strong><em>Flickr<\/em><\/strong>: 676 [674]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>LinkedIn <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 LabourStart group: 710 [607]<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Website<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nCorrespondents: 957 [948]<br \/>\nUnique visits to the site this month : 609,164 [638,240] &#8211; 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