Why Social Media
- More than 400 million active users
- 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- Average user has 130 friends
- People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook
- There are over 160 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups and events)
- Average user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events
- Average user creates 70 pieces of content each month
- More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
- Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users.
- New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day.
- 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month.
- Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day.
- Twitter's search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day.
- Of Twitter's active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet.
- Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.
- LinkedIn has over 65 million members in over 200 countries.
- A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half of our members are outside the U.S.
- Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are LinkedIn members.
- Average age of LinkedIn user is 41
- World's largest professional networking site
- 70,000,000 - number of total videos on YouTube
- 200,000 - number of video publishers on YouTube
- 100,000,000+ - number of YouTube videos viewed per day
- 112,486,327 - number of views the most viewed video on YouTube has
- 2 minutes 46.17 seconds - average length of video
- 412.3 years - length in time it would take to view all content on YouTube
- 26.57 - average age of uploader
- 24 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
- Over 4 billion photos have been uploaded since its inception in 2004
- Flickr helps you organize that huge mass of photos you have and offers a way for you and your friends and family to tell stories about them
- Social networking of photos within site
- Add friends and family
