When I first started using social media to reach out to people, one of the things I found difficult was to determine which media were geographically, best for my blog. As my first blog (Ubuntu Linux Help) was in English, I assumed that it might not be of interest to Chinese speaking people, for example. While later I realized this premise was completely false, I did learn that such analytics were very beneficial if I needed to market to a specific geographic area. Side note: I found that there were a huge number of translation services visiting my Linux blog and translating it into other languages for those who did not speak English. Incidentally, it's prudent to note that most people visiting your blog who's native language is not English, will still speak English as their other language. For those interested in online translation or site's where multilingual content is posted I'd suggest the following: Google Translate Kontribute Humanitas International FreeTranslation.com However, let's get back to the subject at hand... For this blog, I've tried to appeal to a specific (albeit huge) area. I needed to determine the most popular social media networks globally. One resource is provided by a British web design business that hosts such ...