Friday, September 14, 2012

SOCIAL MEDIA FACTS

1. 85% of women are annoyed by
their friends (note – I don't think
this is just limited to Facebook!!).
2. Links about sex are shared
90% more than any other link.
3. More than 350 million users
suffer from Facebook Addiction
Syndrome.
4. 25% of users don't bother with
any kind of privacy control.
5. The average Facebook user has
130 friends.
Twitter
6. 750 tweets per second are
shared on Twitter.
7. The original Twitter beta was
launched on the birthday of CEO
Evan Williams.
8. If Twitter was a country, it'd be
the 12th largest in the world.
9. 30% of Twitter users have an
income of more than $100,000.
10. Twitter handles more search
queries per month than Bing and
Yahoo combined (24 billion
versus 4.1 billion and 9.4 billion
respectively).
YouTube
16. YouTube was founded to
share dinner clips of a party due
to the files being too large for
email.
17. The most watched video is
Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, with
470 million views.
18. The most watched non-
commercial video is Charlie Bit My
Finger Again, with over 458
million views.
19. The average visitor spends 15
minutes per day on YouTube.
20. It originally started life as a
dating site and was influenced by
the Hot Or Not website.
The Mobile Web
46. 42% of phones in the U.S. are
smartphones, with 44% of
European users on a smartphone.
47. More than 110 million
smartphone users in the U.S and
Europe access social networks
and blogs on their phones.
48. Tablets took just two years to
reach 40 million users in the U.S. –
it took smartphones 7 years to
reach this figure.
49. China is the number one
country in the world for
smartphone use, with
approximately 1 billion users.
50. In the U.K., there are twice as
many smartphone users than
cigarette smokers.
Bonus Facts
Social gamers are expected to buy
$6 billion in virtual goods in 2012.
One in 5 couples meet online; 3 in
5 gay couples meet online.
Statistics:

eMarketer and Stanford
University.

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Social Media Facts!

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