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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
• 

  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
• 

  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
• 

  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

What is Social Spam?

March 20, 2012 By Dave Charest 

Reposted from: http://blogs.constantcontact.com/product-blogs/social-media-marketing/social-spam-infographic/

Spam isn’t just for email anymore.

As the use of social networks continues to grow, so does the number of professional spammers  looking to find their way into your social feeds.

But could you be inadvertently spamming your fans and followers as well?

Check out our latest infographic on social spam. Be sure to pay particular attention to the section on creating good social content. Armed with this reference you’ll never have to worry about creating social spam again.
Enjoy!

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