Consumers spent $1.42 billion on AI mobile apps in 2024, up from about $380 million in 2023. That's App Store and Google Play spending worldwide, per Appfigures. #AI #marketing

1,433 active sites in Poland, 748 in the United States: the home market of @getresponse is still its biggest. Germany (348) and Italy (321) are next. In email marketing overall it ranks 19th, with 0.29% of sites. #emailmarketing #martech

98.86% of human web requests were encrypted with HTTPS in Q3 2026. Bot traffic trails at 88.26%, up from 84.09% in Q3 2025. Data via Cloudflare Radar. #SSL #infosec

$14.35 billion: TikTok's global revenue in 2023. In 2017 it was $63 million. The 2023 total was up 52.6% on 2022's $9.40 billion, per Business of Apps. #TikTok #socialmedia

7.07% of websites with a digital asset management tool use @Dropbox, sixth in the category. Canva leads with 21.68%. By country: the US has 4,188 active sites, the UK 636, and Australia is third with 410. #cloud #productivity

For software buyers, IT security is the top 2025 priority at 37%. AI ties with IT management at 31%, ahead of marketing (23%) and CRM (22%). Source: Gartner, 3,500 buyers surveyed in August 2024.

69% of the IT professionals surveyed already use AI or plan to within two years. IT automation is close behind at 67%, 5G at 66%. September 2025 survey of 835 IT professionals.

Software and hardware projects tie at 19% each of 2025 IT budgets in North America and Europe. Hosted and cloud projects take 15%, IT labor 13%. From a survey of 803 IT professionals, July-August 2024 (Aberdeen Group, Spiceworks, SWZD).

55% of tech companies in North America and EMEA expect to raise IT budgets in 2026. It was 64% for 2024 and 62% for 2025, per Aberdeen Group, Spiceworks and SWZD. Where the money goes, and what buyers want 🧵 #IT #enterprise

More websites run @webex than Slack: 7.08% of the productivity and collaboration category against 5.12%. Atlassian leads at 35.46% and Zoom is second with 11.76%. #remotework #collaboration

78% of organizations used AI in at least one function in 2024, up from 55% in 2023. North America led at 82% and Europe followed at 80%. Asia-Pacific was lowest at 72%. Source: McKinsey & Company, Stanford University. #AI #enterprise

27.88% of the companies running @discourse forums are in software development. Technology and internet firms come next at 9.87%. Across community and comment tools, Discourse is fifth, on 1.33% of sites. #community #forums

Of the three, it's Disqus: 4.6% of the community and comments category, against XenForo's 2.78% and phpBB's 2.31%. Its biggest customer group is advertising services, at 4.94%.

Intelligent security and smart monitoring tops Deloitte's list of physical AI types: 21% of AI leaders expect it to have the greatest industry impact. Collaborative robotics got 20%, digital twins 19%. Survey of 3,235 senior leaders, August to September 2025. #AI #enterprise

Software development companies are 6.93% of @buymeacoffee customers, its largest industry. Tech and internet firms add 6.42%, IT services 5.65%. Among donation and fundraising tools it has 5.16%, fifth, just behind Ko-fi at 5.69%. #creatoreconomy #creators