The #followfriday Spanish blog compiled a report, using FilterTweeps, about Twitter profiles and people’s URL: Facebook is the preferred URL taking the 28% of Twitter users.
This blog is in charge of analyzing the #FollowFriday (or #FF) recommendations to create this type of reports, in this case combining their Twitter users database (with over 11 million users) with FilterTweeps, a powerful web app for searching users in Twitter.
The results of the URL in Twitter profiles show a preference by users to insert their Facebook home pages, taking the 28% of the total users. The other sites in the list are: Blogspot, 20%; Myspace, 13%; Tumblr, 8.3%; Orkut, 8%; Twitter (why?!), 6%. You can find the entire list here.
OESIS OK presented an interesting report about antivirus software and their current market share. Within this report some important, and some surprising, facts were revealed. Take a look.
This is the report regarding most used security applications:
OESIS OK presents as a company for “Antivirus interoperability certification software testing”, that means they are continuously evaluating the antivirus market share and the possibilities behind it. Here are some of the quick facts about this report:
- 42% of antivirus and security tools installed are freeware. They say “It would appear that end users have as much faith in the ability of free antivirus applications to keep them secure as they do paid antivirus”.
- Avast Free is the most popular application with 11.45%.
- The list of free antivirus and applications completes with: Avira Antivir Personal (9.19%); AVG Free (8.6%) and fourth Microsoft Security Essentials with (7.48%).
- Regarding paid applications: Avast with 5.54%; Kaspersky with 4.48%; Norton with 4.24% and finally ESET NOD32 with 3.84%
A PDF version of the complete report can be found here.
This is also the graph of the distribution of the market share regarding vendors:
