Interesting and Surprising Social Media Statistics
The press release for the upcoming social media summit in October included some interesting media statistics:
* Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours.
* Twitter now has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis.
* LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide..
* Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis.Six months ago, this was 250m…This means over 40% growth in less than 6 months.
* Flickr now hosts more than 4 billion images.
* More than 35m Facebook users update their status each day.
* Wikipedia currently has in excess of 14m articles, meaning that it’s 85,000 contributors have written nearly a million new posts in six months.
* Photo uploads to Facebook have increased by more than 100%. Currently, there are around 2.5bn uploads to the site each month.
* Back in 2009, the average user had 120 friends within Facebook. This is now around 130.
* Mobile is even bigger than before for Facebook, with more than 65m users accessing the site through mobile-based devices. In six months, this is over 100% increase.
* There are more than 3.5bn pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, etc.) shared each week on Facebook.
* There are now 11m LinkedIn users across Europe.
* Towards the end of last year, the average number of tweets per day was over 27.3 million.
* The average number of tweets per hour was around 1.3m.
* 15% of bloggers spend 10 or more hours each week blogging, according to Technorati’s new State of the Blogosphere.
* At the current rate, Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in a single year.
* About 70% of Facebook users are outside the USA.
* India is currently the fastest-growing country to use LinkedIn, with around 3m total users.
* More than 250 Facebook applications have over a million combined users each month.
* 70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog.
* 38% of bloggers post brand or product reviews.
* More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since December 2008 and more than 60m Facebook users engage with it across these external sites each month.
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poddys 9:06 am on September 10, 2010 Permalink |
The statistics are just amazing aren’t they. It’s incredible just how fast social networking has grown, as well as the ways that social networks can be used.
Combining this with the continued steady growth of internet users worldwide, and the rapid growth in the use of mobile devices to access the internet, I don’t think we could have predicted 5 years ago how sites like Facebook and Twitter could have changed our lives.
Social Media Guru 12:24 pm on September 16, 2010 Permalink |
What a writeup!! Very informative and easy to understand. Looking for more such blog posts!! Do you have a twitter or a facebook?
I recommended it on stumbleupon. The only thing that it’s missing is a bit of color. Anyway thank you for this blog.
drdianehamilton 12:58 pm on September 16, 2010 Permalink |
Thank you – I can be followed on Facebook and Twitter . . . see my icon links at the right side of the page.