Social Media - Cool Facts

 Here follow some cool facts about the main social networks:

  • The average Facebook user has 130 friends  
  • Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
  • There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices
  • People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook

  • Twitter started as a simple SMS-text service
  • Twitter gets more than 300,000 new users every day
  • There are more than 600 million searches on Twitter every day
  • Over 60% of Twitter use is outside the U.S.
  • More than a third of users access Twitter via their mobile phone

  • LinkedIn is the oldest of the four sites in this post, having been created on May 5 2003
  • There are more than 70 million users worldwide
  • Members of LinkedIn come from more than 200 countries from every continent
  • LinkedIn is available in six native languages – English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish
  • 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool
  • A new member joins LinkedIn every second
  • LinkedIn receives almost 12 million unique visitors per day
 
  •  The very first video uploaded was called “Me at the Zoo”, on 23rd April 2005
  • YouTube receives more than 2 billion viewers per day
  • Over half of YouTube’s users are under 20 years old
  • You would need to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube
  • YouTube is available in 19 countries and 12 languages
  • Music videos account for 20% of uploads

  • 77% of Internet users read blogs
  • There are currently 133 million blogs listed on leading blog directory Technorati
  • 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44
  • Two thirds of bloggers are male
  • Corporate blogging accounts for 14% of blogs
  • Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog

Statistics from Facebook press office, Twitter and the Chirp Conference, LinkedIn press centre and SysComm International, YouTube press centre, Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009.

11 comments:

  1. Hello,
    thanks for being my follower.
    Kisses.

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  2. heres to my thousand year Youtube quest!

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  3. Interessante sua pesquisa.
    Obrigado por compartilhar.
    Bjos achocolatados e seja bem vindo ao Meu Aconchego.

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  4. Two thirds of bloggers are male? That one surprised me.

    Man, I loooove youtube. In a way, it's like tv. I looooove tv. And I'm not even a couch potato...ok, only on Sunday afternoons.

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  5. YouTube is great, one of the best inventions ever but there's also tons of crap there. I was surprised too about male being the majority of bloggers but then again on Facebook there are more women then men...

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  6. Yes, as with everything, there will be a lot of crap also on YouTube. Just as there is junk literature, music, food, theatre. Discipline is good.

    So the blog is a man's thing, eh? Are there more women on Facebook because it's more 'sociable' and blogging gives men the space to air views, be as [fill in adjective here] as they want to be, without being censured by their women? I'm just guessing here. What do you think?

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  7. Oiii
    Que bom que pra entender esse post nao precisa ter um ingles brilhante ! Captei rs !E fiquei em choque com os numeros !!!!!!!!! affff
    Beijos

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  8. I'm pretty much strickly a blogger.

    I’ve been following and enjoying your blog for a while now and would like to invite you to visit and perhaps follow me back. Sorry I took so long for the invitation.

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  9. I'm on your 3rd or 4th page back on your followers wedgit.

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  10. Nice entry. You really searched for the statistics. :D

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  11. I really enjoyed reading the posts on your blog. I would like to invite you to come on over to my blog and check it out. God bless, Lloyd

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