New data from social media analytics firm Sysomos shows that despite the U.S. traffic flatline , Twitter is still growing in popularity internationally. Whereas in June of last year the U.S.

Somewhere around this date , every month , we look at the stats from various web analytics companies, and check how the most important social media and social networking sites are doing. And don’t get us wrong: these stats can be biased ( Compete , for example, is US-biased) and they can be wrong (sometimes they will report a fall or decline in traffic even when the reality is quite the opposite). But when we see a trend that goes on for four months, there must be something to it

Last month, we reported on a survey that found that 84% of social media programs don’t measure return on investment (ROI).

Throughout the entire 2008 and the better part of 2009, we’ve reported on Facebook and Twitter’s explosive growth. Month after month , we’ve seen tremendous numbers from both these services, while some giants of old, such as MySpace, dropped lower and lower. Somewhere in June, however, Twitter stopped growing , at least according to Compete

Traditional web analytics tools like Google Analytics are a great for both small and large bloggers and publishers. However, traffic data can only tell you so much

Less than a month after a major Gmail outage , many users of Google’s popular webmail service are once again experiencing issues this morning. As with most Gmail outages, frustration is spreading quickly via Twitter , as some users can’t get to their email at all, while others are having issues accessing their contacts and Gmail chat