Facebook, Twitter mobile use soars
Growth in the number of people tweeting and friending from their mobile devices is keeping pace with increases in subscribers to social networks.
A new study by comScore shows that 4.7 million people accessed Twitter on their mobile phones in January 2010, up 347 percent jump compared to last year.
The number of Facebook users going to the site on their mobiles hit 25.1 million, up 112 percent.
MySpace's numbers actually declined 7 percent from last year, with 11.4 million mobile users free credit report.
Those numbers compare with an overall increase of 4.6 percent in the number of mobile phone users who accessed a social networking site via mobile browser.
ComScore said that In January, 11.1 percent of all mobile phone users went to social networks on their mobiles.
Smartphone owners were far more likely to do so compared to other cell phone users, 30.8 percent vs. 6.8 percent .