social media statistics

Social Media changed the face of internet and internet marketing. Millions of connections are being made while we speak. More and more people are engaged with game and are enlarging the world of opportunities for some sort of greater good. Here is some fact and figures

About Social Media – general

10% of all internet time is spent on social networks.
Visiting Social sites is now the 4th most popular online activity, ahead of personal email.
66% the Global Internet Population use Social Networks.
Social Networking Sites are officially the most popular sites ahead of Porn Sites.
In 2009, nine out of ten 25-34 year Old UK Internet users visited a social networking site.
1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via Social Media

About FACEBOOK

By July 2010 Facebook will have registered 500,000,000 users.
Facebook’s user base will cross the 1 billion-mark by 2011!
More than 120 million users log on to Facebook at least once a day!
Facebook is the 3rd most busy website in the world, in terms of traffic.
Facebook is the largest photo-sharing platform with over 1,000,000,000 photos.
Facebook doesn’t know geographic borders – more than 70% of its users, that is more than 350 000 000 people, are outside the United States!
The fastest growing demographic segment on Facebook is the 35 years-old and upwards one.

About TWITTER

Twitter is the fastest growing social network in the world. It grew by 1,928% from June 2008 to Jun 2009
Twitter reached the 50 million unique visitor mark in July 2009.
Global Tweets jumped from 300,000 per day in 2008 to more than 50,000,000 today.
If Twitter’s current growth rate keeps up, they could be at 100 million members by the end of 2010.

About YOUTUBE

It would take you more than 470 years to view all videos posted on Youtube, in one go.
YouTube receives 13 hours video per minute.

SOICAL MEDIA IN BUSINESS

More than 300,000 businesses are on Facebook and around 33% of these are small businesses.
Lenovo cut costs by 20% in call center activity when they redirected their customers to a community website.
Genius.com said that it was able to directly monetize 24% of its social media leads into sales opportunities.
Dell sold $3,000,000 worth of computers through its Twitter channel.
It is now proven; only 14% people trust Ads, 76% trust consumer recommendations and comments.

Yes, the world’s changed and so with it, will go all our long learned principles, down the drain.