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1. General Facts
- Australia has the most number of established users of social media in the world, followed by USA and UK.
- In terms of the impact of social networks on advertising, word of mouth is the popular option with 78% of customers trust peer recommendations on sites. While, only 14% trust advertisements.
- Advertising has also been impacted greatly because of social media with only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive return on investment.
- Facebook, Blogspot followed by Myspace are the top sites visited by under 18s.
- An average user becomes a fan of 2 pages every month.
- 24 out of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing declines in circulations because the news reaches users in other formats.
- 25% of search results for the world’s top 20 brands are linked to user-generated content.
- In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, 90% of participants know at least one social networking site.
- In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries,72% of participants of the internet population are active on at least 1 networking sites. The top 3 countries part of at least 1 network site was Brazil (95%), USA (84%), and Portugal (82%).
- In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, users of social networking sites are saturated. Connected people feel no need to further expand their membership on other social network sites.
- In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, on an average, users log in twice a day to social networking sites and 9 times a month on professional websites.
- In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, sending personal messages is the most popular online activity. The top 5 activities online are sending personal messages, watching photos, checking status, reacting to others’ status, and uploading pictures.
- In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, people have about 195 friends on an average.
2. Facebook Facts
- Facebook has over 500 million users.
- If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s 3rd largest country.
- An average Facebook user spends about 55 minutes a day on the site.
- An average Facebook user spends about 6.50 hours a week on the site.
- The average Facebook user spends 1.20 days a month on the site
- Facebook’s translation application support over 100 languages.
- There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
- Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
- Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
- More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
- In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, Facebook is studied to have the highest penetration. The top 3 sites include Facebook (51%), MySpace (20%), and Twitter (17%).
- Over 300,000 users translate the site through the translations application.
- Over 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month.
- Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites are integrated with Facebook.
- There are over 100 million active users accessing Facebook currently through their mobile devices.
3. YouTube Facts
- The most popular YouTube video – Justin Bieber, Baby ft. Ludacris has had over 374,403,983 views
- YouTube receives over 2 billion viewers each day.
- 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube by users every minute.
- 70% of YouTube users are from the United States.
- More than half of YouTube’s users are under the age of 20.
- To watch all the videos currently on YouTube, a person has to live for around 1,000 years.
- YouTube is available across 19 countries and in 12 languages.
- Music videos account for 20% of uploads on YouTube.
4. Blogger Facts
- There are over 181 million blogs.
- 34% of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.
- The age group for 60% of bloggers is 18-44 years.
- One in five bloggers updates their blogs every day.
- Two thirds of bloggers are male.
- Corporate blogging accounts for 14% of blogs.
- 15% of bloggers spend 10 hours a week blogging.
- More than half of all bloggers are married and/or parents.
- More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog.
5. Tweet Facts
- 54% of bloggers post content or tweet on a daily basis.
- 80% of Twitter users use Twitter on mobile devices.
- There have been over 50 million tweets in 2010.
- The 10 billionth Twitter’s tweet was posted in March 2010.
- There are over 110 million users of Twitter currently.
- 180 million unique users access Twitter each month.
- More than 600 million searches happen on Twitter every day.
6. LinkedIn Facts
- 53. Of the 60 million users of LinkedIn half of them are from outside US.
- By March 2010 Australia alone had over 1 million LinkedIn users.
- 80% companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool.
- Every second a new member joins LinkedIn.
- Almost 12 million unique visitors visit LinkedIn every day.
- LinkedIn has executives from all Fortune 500 companies.
- 1-in-20 LinkedIn profiles are accounted by recruiter.
7. Wikipedia Facts
- If $1 was paid to you for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $156 per hour.
- Wikipedia has the maximum number of articles at 3 million articles. This is followed by, German (1.08 million), French (958,000), Italian (697,000), and Spanish (608,000).
- 69% of users edit Wikipedia to fix errors.
- 73% of Wikipedia users edit Wikipedia because they want to share knowledge.
- 4.4% editors of Wikipedia’s are PhD’s, 19% of the editors hold master degrees.
- Bad weather usually results in more number of updates in Wikipedia.
- 13% of the editors on Wikipedia are women.
8. Foursquare Facts
- Over the last first year of Foursquare, it has more than half a million users, 1.4 million venues, and 15.5 million check-ins.
- Foursquare is five times larger than Gowalla.
- Foursquare is growing 75% faster than Gowalla each day.
- Foursquare passed the 3 million users milestone in August 2010
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