December 11, 2012
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re aware that social media has continued to gain momentum as a bona-fide communications and business resource. And given that the new year is almost upon us, our author, Danny Brown, thought it might be fun to have a cool statistic for every week of the year.
Here are ten statistics each for the five best-known social media outlets – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and blogging – with two more bonus facts thrown in just for fun. (For a total of one statistic per week for a year).
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2. More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) is shared each month.
3. Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application.
4. More than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month.
5. Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook.
6. There are more than 600 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
7. People that access Facebook via mobile are twice as active than non-mobile users (think about that when designing your Facebook page).
8. The average Facebook user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events.
9. People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook.
10. There are more than 1 million entrepreneurs and developers from 180 countries on Facebook.
Statistics from Facebook press office.
12. There are more than 187 million users worldwide.
13. Two new members join LinkedIn every second.
14. Members of LinkedIn come from more than 200 countries from every continent.
15. LinkedIn is available in nineteen native languages.
16. Oracle’s Chief Financial Officer, Jeff Epstein, was headhunted for the position via his LinkedIn profile.
17. 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool.
18. LinkedIn receives almost 12 million unique visitors per day.
19. Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn.
20. Recruiters account for 1-in-20 LinkedIn profiles.
Statistics from LinkedIn press centre and SysComm International.
22. Twitter gets more that 11 new users every second.
23. There are currently 465 million users of Twitter’s services.
24. Twitter receives 180 million unique visits each month.
25. There are more than 600 million searches on Twitter every day.
26. Twitter started as a simple SMS-text service.
27. Over 60% of Twitter use is outside the U.S.
28. There are more than 50,000 third-party apps for Twitter.
29. Twitter has donated access to all of its tweets to the Library of Congress for research and preservation.
30. More than a third of users access Twitter via their mobile phone.
Statistics from Twitter and the Chirp Conference.
YouTube
31. Over 800 million people around the world use YouTube each month.32. 500 years of YouTube video are watched on Facebook every single day.
33. YouTube receives more than 4 billion views per day, 600 million from mobile devices.
34. Every minute, 72 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
35. The U.S. accounts for 70% of YouTube users.
36. Over half of YouTube’s users are under 20 years old.
37. You would need to live for around 2,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube.
38. YouTube is available in 19 countries and 12 languages.
39. Music videos account for 20% of uploads.
40. YouTube uses the same amount of bandwidth as the entire Internet used in 2000.
Statistics from YouTube press center.
Blogging
41. 77% of Internet users read blogs.42. There are currently 1.6 million blogs listed on the blog directory Technorati.
43. 60% of bloggers are between the ages 25-44.
44. One in five bloggers update their blogs daily.
45. About two thirds of bloggers are male.
46. Corporate blogging accounts for 14% of blogs.
47. 15% of bloggers spend 10 hours a week blogging.
48. More than half of all bloggers are married and/or parents.
49. More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog.
50. Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog.
Statistics from Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2011.
Bonus Facts
51. 90% of Internet users know at least one social network.52. The average social user has 195 friends.
Statistics from Online Media Gazette.
So there you have it – a fact for every week of the year, just in case you need it for your next presentation, or if you want to let folks know why social media isn’t so dorky after all.
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