Only 13% of marketers fully trusted AI-driven insights in January 2025.
33% trusted them but validated with human review. 35% relied mostly on human judgment. 11% didn't trust them at all.
Source: Ascend2.
#AI #marketing
XenForo has 13.97% of the community and comments category, second to Disqus at 23.11%.
Disqus is a comments widget, which makes XenForo the most-used forum platform: phpBB has 11.61%, Discourse 6.67%, vBulletin 3.82%.
#forums #community
Budgets for 2026: a net 82% of marketers expected to spend more on connected TV, and a net 56% on paid social.
Digital display was the only channel with a net cut, at -18%.
Source: Ebiquity / World Federation of Advertisers, November 2025.
What marketers say social media gets them: increased exposure (83%), more traffic (71%), leads (62%), loyal fans (57%).
Improved sales comes last, at 46%.
Split by audience, the answer flips.
Facebook is the top platform for 46% of B2C marketers. For B2B marketers it's LinkedIn, at 51%, a platform only 10% of B2C marketers put first.
36% of marketers worldwide call Facebook their single most important social platform. Instagram: 27%. LinkedIn: 26%. TikTok: 2%.
Four charts on where marketers put social in 2026 🧵
Source: Social Media Examiner, January 2026.
#socialmedia #advertising
8,907 sites in India run @CodeIgniterPhp, more than in any other country. The US has 5,301, Brazil 3,363.
Among web frameworks the PHP framework holds 3.44%, sixth overall. leads at 46.19%, and Laravel is fifth at 4.87%.
#PHP #webdev
$140B: estimated worldwide DRAM revenue in 2025, a record.
It was $45B in 2015, peaked at $100B in 2018 and sank to $48B in 2023. High-bandwidth memory for AI accelerators drove the rebound.
Source: DRAMeXchange, IHS, TrendFocus, TrendForce.
#semiconductors #memory
3.68% of sites with a bot detection or CAPTCHA tool run Turnstile, the CAPTCHA alternative from @cloudflare. That's third, just ahead of hCaptcha at 3.44%.
reCAPTCHA leads with 65.26%. Cloudflare Bot Management is second at 26.04%.
#bots #infosec
Financial services: 9.86% of companies using @docker, against 10.21% for IT services. Software development leads with 20.21%. Insurance is fourth at 4.15%.











