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Social Media and Mobile Growth are Exponentially Symbiotic

There are a lot of conversations happening around the need for social media in your company.

There are a lot of conversations happening around making your content mobile friendly.

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To me there are not enough conversations happening around mobile, social media and the impact they will have on your company. It will be huge. Bigger than either by itself. I honestly don’t think anyone has a full sense for how big it will be. There’s a reason both have been growing at a huge rate right along with each other.

From CNET:

6.8 Billion People on the planet
5 Billion Cell Phone Subscriptions
1 Billion with Internet Access

Cell phone subscriptions to hit 5 billion globally | 3GSM blog – CNET Reviews

“Even during an economic crisis, we have seen no drop in the demand for communications services,” said ITU Secretary-General Dr. Hamadoun Toure at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, “and I am confident that we will continue to see a rapid uptake in mobile cellular services in particular in 2010, with many more people using their phones to access the Internet.”

h/t Daring Fireball

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  • There sure is a parallel between social media (networks) and mobile life. Eventually, they should converge into one stream.
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