{"id":48374,"date":"2012-04-23T11:53:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=48374"},"modified":"2012-04-23T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T10:18:21","slug":"pintrest-user-numbers-dip-as-hype-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/48374-pintrest-user-numbers-dip-as-hype-grows.html","title":{"rendered":"Pinterest user numbers dip as hype grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/407093-Pinterest\">Pinterest\u2019s<\/a> popularity has grown drastically over recent months, but is it purely a result of temporary hype?<\/p>\n<p>While <a title=\"comScore\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/385195-comScore\">comScore<\/a> reported that the social photo-sharing network gained 10 million unique monthly visitors faster than any standalone site ever, while also attracting a $1 billion valuation, third-party apps are revealing a different trend with the site\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook app tracking service, <a title=\"AppData\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/390475-AppData\">AppData<\/a>, shows that the monthly active users on <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a>, or the users who use Facebook to connect with Pinterest, have dropped from 12.2 million to 8.3 million within a month.<\/p>\n<p>Daily active users are also down, as the data suggests a drop to 930,000 from 1,1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Other sources, such as <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> Trends, also show a deceleration in growth.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/04\/22\/as-pinterests-hype-peaks-there-are-external-signs-that-its-growth-is-slowing\/\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>User activity reportedly down in contrast to Pintrest\u2019s hype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":48376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7531,10934,10932],"class_list":["post-48374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-appdata","tag-photo-sharing","tag-pintrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48390,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374\/revisions\/48390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}