Social Networking On-The-Go: U.S. Mobile Social Media Audience Grows 37 Percent in the Past Year
*Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Post Mobile Growth of at Least 50 Percent*
*Majority of Mobile Social Networkers Read Posts from Brands While on Their Device*
RESTON, VA, October 20, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released results of a study on mobile social media usage based on data from its comScore MobiLens service, which showed that 72.2 million Americans accessed social networking sites or blogs on their mobile device in August 2011, an increase of 37 percent in the past year. The study also provided new insights into how mobile users interact with social media, finding that more than half read a post from an organization, brand or event while on their mobile device. (more…)