The past couple of weeks I collected a couple of interesting facts and figures on Social Media. As I love this kind of information and lists I thought you might be interested too. My first conclusion based on this list….. Social Media has taken over the internet the last year. If you have some interesting add-ons to this list please feel free to add, I am very interested in more details on social media and networking.
- There are currently 350 million Facebook users.
- 25% of all search results for the top 20 brands are links from social media related websites.
- 34% of all online bloggers blog about their opinions and views on products or services they use.
- Google is number 1 search engine followed by Youtube.
- In 2008 12.5% of all US married couples have initiately met eachother through a social network
- The total online marketing spend on social media was $350 million in 2006, it is expected that this figure increases to over $2.5 billion in 2011.
- 63% of all Twitter users is male
- In total 2,600,000,000 minutes global users are spending on Facebook daily
- Flickr has currently over 3.6 billion user pictures and photos
- Wikipedia consists over 13 million articles in around 260 languages.
- It is expected YouTube will host approx. 75 billion video streams and receives 375 million unique visitors in 2009.
- Just within 9 months there were over 1 billion iPhone apps available to download or purchase.
- If Facebook was a country, it would be the fourth largest country in the world. (This while Facebook is ‘banned’ in China)
- An American study in 2009 discovered that on average, online students learn easier than students who could collect information throught “face to face”contact.
- 1 in 6 college students has an online resume
- 110 million US citizens, or 60% of all internet users, are using social networks.The average user of a social network visits social networks around five days a week and logs in around four times each day with a total login time of 1 hour. A social network addict ( approx 9%) stays logged in the whole day and is “constantly checking out user generated content”
- The fastest growing group on Facebook consist of females around the age of 55-65 year old.
- Generation Y and Z thinks that e-mail is outdated.
- Wikipedia receives more than 60 million unique visitors each month and it is said that content on wikipedia is more reliable than any known printed Encyclopaedia.
- Social Media has taken over the number 1 activity on Internet, pornography.
- Facebook users have translated the entire Facebook website within 4 weeks from English to Spanish using a Wiki. The costs for Facebook were $ 0.
- More than 1.5 million pieces of web content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are daily shared on Facebook. There are over 6,7 Billion “tweets” sent into the world. Watch the live score; http://popacular.com/gigatweet.
- Common used enterprise social media strategies: Discussion Boards 76%, RSS 57%, Ratings and Reviews of articles or site content 47%, Profiles of Social Networking 45%, Photo Albums 39%, Chat 35%, Personal blogs 33%, Video-user submitted 35%, Podcasts 33%, Social Bookmarking 29%, Video Blogs 29%, Widgets 22%, Mobile Video/image text submission 16%, Wikis 16%, Citizen Journalism 12%, Micro-blogging 6%, Virtual Worlds 4%
- 52% of all social networkers become friended or a fan of at least one brand through social networking
- 95% of business decision makers worldwide use social networks (source: Forrester Research)
- 17% of all university and college students have found a suitable job with only their online resume
- Around 64% of marketers are using social media for 5 hours or more each week during campaigns, with 39% using it for 10 or more hours per week.
- The online bookmarking service, Delicious, has more than five million users and over 150 million unique bookmarked URLs.
- Favorite people on Twitter (Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears) have more combined followers than the entire population of Austria.*
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