Number of Australian Twitter users for June 2009 was 800,000, according to ComScore. Facebook in particular demonstrated significant growth; Twitter benefited from sudden mainstream popularity in 2009. Windows Live Profile chalked up close to two million visitors, but it was Twitter that grew the most, rising to 800,000 visitors in June — up from 13,000 last year. Found this over at MarketingCharts : Over 70% of Australian internet users visited a social networking site in June, a 29% rise from the same time last year, reports comScore.

Toyota Australia have given 5 agencies – well 6 but 2 are working together: To put in context Toyota Yaris $15,000 budgets to come up with a social media campaign, Peter Webster National Marketing Manager for Toyota in Australia in April 2009 had $80-85 spending power .  One Green Bean has a werewolf in a Yaris – you can register on Facebook or Twitter and use GPS to flag him down and get a lift to a Halloween party Toyota have chosen 5 or 6 agencies and have asked them to spend $15,000 each on a “social media marketing campaign”. Think “stunt”

(nearly 100) Here’s a list of journalists from Australian (mostly mainstream, some New Zealanders) media who have embraced, indeed are head over heels, in love with Twitter. Trevor Cook put a dozen Australian Journalists on Twitter together. Here is a little formula I just cooked up called the Tweet-GQ (Tweet Gary Quotient) that works out a Twitter rating. Let’s sit here and watch them. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes . Who watches the watchers themselves? By the way, the first social networking book I ever read was The Republic by Plato, mashing’up and

So when people put together lists of “ interesting twitterers ” and less interesting ones I rushed off to find a celebrity list. Famous Twits, the number of followers, link to twitter profile 1. So, who are Australia’s Celebrity Twitterers? Mark Pesce, on a train with much loved Macintosh … everything I ever learnt about blogging, I learnt from Womens Weakly and No Idea. Here from The Times (I’ve simplified it, go look at their page for more details):

Quite a different slant from the 40 Social Media Guidelines for Staff , here are Mosman Council laying out their guidelines for following @mosmancouncil on Twitter:  Be aware that Twitter is a public space on the internet and all interaction is publicly viewable and searchable over time. If you want to keep your Twitter channel private, you can  protect your updates . Stop following me! If  @mosmancouncil  is following you and you’d rather we didn’t, please feel free to  block  us.

In this video taken at the Mayor of San Francisco’s press conference, @ev (Evan Williams, CEO and co-founder of Twitter) is talking about how businesses use Twitter… and government departments gives updates on Twitter (like the lovely MelbTransport ) But official. Interestingly, BART has Twitter on their webpage so @ev agrees Some of his examples and points: Events - Earthquakes creates viral spike in activity

If you hunt through this blog, you’ll notice that I’ve been tracking Facebook users in Australia since May 2007 (around 200,000 members I think) to today and 1/3 of Australian population. Australia: Number of Australians on Facebook 2010 is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy Technorati Tags: Australia , Australians , Facebook Well, the number of Australians on Facebook has shot through the roof. After sitting on 6 million for a while, we have 7,900,000 monthly active users, 6,900,000 over 18 years old.

Australia’s community for solo & micro business Women’s Network Australia - have a forum called eNoticeboard Zaabiz - Empowering business networks - Busines social network for Australia/Asia. Or better still -YOU give me some business social networks in Australia. A “top list” of social networks and online communities for business and corporate. Not blogs - they must have community features of many-to-many discussions, leaders, UGC etc. 

Who are Australia’s top marketing and media bloggers ? For Lee Hopkins , who asked today on Twitter about getting access to an updated Top Marketing and Media bloggers list for Australia. As you can see, their ranking in Australia is left column, then the blog name, their ranking in August last year, their ranking today, and for fun, their Twitter ID if I have it handy. Not decided by the local BlogMafia -heh - but internationally recognised and independently evaluated? This is the list.

Yammer.com  - Twitter wannabe for Enterprise The same again, perhaps more were on Twitter. Always interesting and astonishes me that across the board, the same number or more are usually on Twitter. They didn’t blog, Facebook or Twitter even email much … aaaanyway: Was on a panel today, at Cebit 2009 at Darling Harbor, Sydney.  You You might like part two where I showed a list of Enterprise 2.0