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Tech blog on August 21st, 2012 by Pingdom

Do you know how old the average Twitter or Facebook user is? Do you know what share of Reddit’s users are women? We could go on and on; when it comes to social network demographics, the questions are endless. This article is going to answer those questions for you, showing you the age and gender distribution on 24 of today’s most popular social networks and online communities.
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Tech blog on July 25th, 2012 by Pingdom

There’s no doubt that Facebook is the dominant player on the social networking scene, but just how dominating is it? We know that there are many other social networks, including the well-known LinkedIn, Twitter, and others. How do they compare with Facebook in terms of traffic, that’s the question.
Last year we published a study of social networks with more than 1 million visitors per day. Then we could spot 29 websites that made the list. This time, it’s down to 26. It seems like Facebook keeps growing and many other sites find it harder to keep users.
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Podcast on April 4th, 2012 by Pingdom

In this show, we talk to Nicolai Solling, Director of Technology Services help AG, about security. We cover the fact that the Internet didn’t stop working a few days ago when Anonymous was supposed to take down the root DNS servers, how the Github community was up in arms over a security flaw and how it was dealt with, new Android malware, and how you can be tracked across websites.
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