At today’s Yahoo analyst event, Yahoo exec Bryan Lamkin shed some light on the company’s recent status update numbers. Yahoo launched its “status-casting” feature a few months ago, which added basic status updates to its Mail and Messenger products. In both Yahoo Mail and Messenger 10, you can update your status and all of your contacts who also use either of those two products can see your updates.
Today, Lamkin says that Yahoo is seeing 800 million status message updates per month through this new feature. AIM has been doing this for sometime now, so Yahoo’s status update feature isn’t new but the quantity of updates is certainly something worth noting. The integration of these status updates into mail and IM represents the merging of private and public messaging.
Lamkin also mentioned a few other noteworthy stats, some of which have been reported before. Yahoo mail alone drives 100 billion messages a month while Flickr users have uploaded more than 4 billion photos, growing at a rate of 100 million per month a month. Of those 4 billion photos, 130 million have been geotagged. Lamkin says that “Yahoo Mail delivers more photos in a week via the inbox than those that get uploaded to Facebook in one month.”
Yahoo Answers sees 30 million questions and answers per month, with users contributing 2.4 questions and answers per second. And there are currently 120 million members in Yahoo Groups across 10 million defined groups and activities. Plus, there are 15 billion messages sent every month across Yahoo Groups, showing the platform to be a place for massive communications.
While these numbers are certainly impressive, many of the status updates and photos are still locked inside Yahoo Mail. All of those photos, for instance are being shared on a one-to-one basis instead of a one-to-many, as is the case with other social media platforms. But the status updates are certainly an important new stream of data for Yahoo.
This is really impressive. It’ll be great to see comparison between yahoo status updates, facebook status updates and tweets per month.
Facebook status updates are likely to be 10 times that number at least, given there are 300 million active users who generally update a few times a week on average.
Tweets per user are probably much higher, because tweets include conversations and link-sharing, as well as general updates on what the person is doing, so not really fair to compare.
Certain services such as MyBlogLog back update twitter statuses onto Yahoo status, wonder if this has been considered/factored by the analysis team.
Yahoo! Status and Updates are available as an open platform via the Yahoo! Developer Network. Both of these streams can be integrated off Yahoo! using our APIs.
Many other services such as Disqus and JSKit are allowing people to create Yahoo! updates while they do things off Yahoo’s network to share with their friends.
Tom
Yahoo! Developer Network
at last i found my life from yahoo messanger.
Assuming 200 million users (it’s probably more). Then each user updates their status on average 4 times per month, or once a week. How does that compare to your own experience on Facebook?
hello . why can t I check my e mail without account information
i couldn’t able sing in yahoo mail..
i couldn’t able sing in yahoo mail..
Yahoo has been for 10+ years now, so it’s no surprise the numbers are big.
What would be more interesting to get from Yahoo are the (relative) trends:
* How fast is Flickr growing? Relative to Facebook photos?
* How fast are status updates growing? Relative to Facebook or Twitter?
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