Social Media Statistics

February 2012: Social Media Statistics 

  

The Facts and Figures

• Facebook • www.facebook.com


• Facebook has over 800 million active users
• surpasses Google for the most visited website on the internet
• 11% of the world population has a Facebook account
• there are more Facebook users than motor vehicles  (800M vs 750M)
• 50% log on to Facebook every day
• average user has 130 friends
• average user spends 700 minutes per month on Facebook
• every 60 seconds on Facebook there are:
• 510,000 posted comments
• 392,000 status updates
• 136,000 uploaded photos
• 30 Billion pieces of content are shared each month Facebook
• Ferrari only sold 5329 cars but 5,267,395 fans on their Facebook page
• Facebook accounts for 10% of all mobile data on the iPhone
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  Twitter • www.twitter.com

• Twitter has 225 million users
• who send 150 million tweets a day (1736 tweets per second)
• Twitters personal record is 8900 tweets... per second
• a great majority of tweets are only 40 characters long
• the average Twitter user has 115 followers
• Lady Gaga was the most followed with 15,864,378 followers
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  Linkedin • www.linkedin.com

• Linkedin has 135 million users
• that's 15 times the population of New York City
• every second 2 new users sign up to Linked in
• Linkedin's age demographics:
• age 18-24 = 21%
• age 25-34 = 36%
• age 35-54 = 36%
• age 55+    = 7%
• includes executives from every company listed on the Fortune 500
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  YouTube • www.youtube.com

• YouTube has 490 million unique visitors
• that generate 92 million page views each month
• in 2011 YouTube reached 700 billion playbacks
• 35 hours of video is uploaded ever minute
• more video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days, than the three major US TV networks created in 60 years of broad cast.
• Justin Bieber's video "Baby" was the most viewed with 659,070,256 views on YouTube 

• Flicker • www.flicker.com

• 3500 photos are uploaded each second to Flicker

• Google+ • plus.google.com

• is rapidly growing with already over 50 million users

• Instagram • www.instagram.com

• there are 150 million photos uploaded with Instagram

• foursquare • www.foursquare.com

• doing well with 2 million check-ins a week

• Smartphone users

• are more than twice as active on social media as non smartphone users
• 60% admits using their device while going to the bathroom