FaceBook and Twitter popularity in New Zealand and Australia will continue to grow with a new Regional Manager for Facebook and VodafoneNZ and Telecom soon to offer tweeting from mobile phones. This coupled with Bebo updates to Vodafone mobiles.

The ever increasingly growing gap between FaceBook and MySpace/Bebo with already large numbers of traditional Bebo users migrating to FaceBook as all of their friends and family are there, will soon be dictated/reinforced by mobile phone access. We could possibly see a return back to Bebo and MySpace if the mobile access is greater for these social media sites.

We should see greater access to all social media in New Zealand via mobile phones much like most of the world already does as the NZ mobile monopoly is being reduced with the new players.

Vodafone has said it will announce prices next week for Tweeting from its mobile and Telecom on May 29. Considering New Zealand has more Pre Pay customers than contract we expect the price to be minimal but estimate that there will be contracts for unlimited tweeting from a mobile.

Again this highlights the need for businesses and organisations of all sizes to consider how Social Media can be best utilised for their organisations.

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