Warning: 23 Social Media Stats You Can’t Ignore
In this day and age, you can’t ignore the fact that social media has had an enormous impact on the way we do business and life in general.
If you choose not to be a part of the Social Media revolution, you are potentially sabotaging the future of your business. The impact you can make can be quite substantial; you just need to choose to join in the Social Media revolution.
Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of the number of people collaborating, researching, and interacting online through the different aspects of Social Media.
1. Over 1, 000, 000, 000, 000 (one trillion) unique website’s are listed in Google.
2. Over 121 million searches are made every hour.
3. Daily page views exceed 7.2 billion.
4. Google has 19,835 employees.
YouTube
5. Over 2 billion views a day.
6. 24 hours of video are uploaded every second.
7. Average person spends 15 minutes on YouTube every day.
8. More than 500 million active users.
9. Over 695 status updates are posted every second.
10. More than 250 million users log onto Facebook each day.
11. Average user has 130 friends.
12. Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on facebook.
13. More than 100 million people use facebook on their phones.
14. More than 1.5 million local businesses have active Pages on Facebook.
15. 300,000 new users sign up every day.
16. 180 million people use twitter every month.
17. Over 50 million tweets sent per day, at about 600 tweets per second.
18. 600 million searches are made on twitter every day.
Other Social Media Sites
19. Linkedin has 50 million users worldwide.
20. Wikipedia has 14 million articles.
21. LinkedIn has 60+ million professionals worldwide.
22. Yahoo has over 12 million searches every hour.
23. Bing has over 3 million searches every hour.
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Sources:
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
http://mashable.com/2010/03/19/global-social-media-usage/
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/014511.html
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/02/measuring-tweets.html
http://webtrends.about.com/b/2010/03/15/the-top-10-most-popular-social-networks.htm
http://compete.com
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx
