• Tweet Queensland’s Hamilton Island has announced a valuable tie-up with Asian social media giant QQ.com as part of a plan to dramatically increase the number of Chinese visiting Australia. Chinese visitors pumped $4.2 billion into the Australian economy in 2012, with tourist numbers from the rising superpower increasing 16 per cent to a record 625,000. [&hellip

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  • Tweet QR code scanning – once the domain of the younger crowd – is becoming more evenly distributed across various age groups, according to [download page] data released by ScanBuy. The company, which says it processed a new high of 6.7 million scans via ScanLife in March, reveals that 57% of mobile barcode scanners were [&hellip

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  • Tweet Another month has flown by and it is now time to report our Australian Social Media statistics for April 2013. As I have mentioned in the past, social media growth in Australia has slowed right up. The larger networks are now reaching saturation point and not growing like we saw in 2010 and 2011. [&hellip

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  • Tweet It appears Aussies are starting to suffer from ‘Facebook fatigue’, according to new data from a social media monitor. The data, collected by social media monitoring firm Social Bakers, shows around 115,000 less people have logged on each month since the beginning of 2013 – with almost 400,000 users walking away from Facebook since [&hellip

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  • Tweet The amount of time Australians spend on social media sites is declining, according to new research involving three million internet users. Interest in sites like Facebook and Twitter grew rapidly in Australia from 2010. But new data shows time spent on these sites via fixed-line internet connections fell in 2012, with average users now [&hellip

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