36% of social networking users want access to social networks on TV
Fact recorded on: February 20, 2009. Categories: Television, WWW.
Today’s consumers are looking to extend their social networks to the TV, as 36% of those who currently use social media on a regular basis say they’d like to access their networks on the TV screen, ABI Research found.
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