50 Fascinating Social Media Facts & Stats of 2010

TODAY I FOUND OUT... All total, about 1.83 billion man-hours are spent per day on social networks and blog sites by all the internet surfers of the world combined. This is about 22% of all time spent online every day. That said, hese's a look at. 50 FASCINATING SOCIAL MEDIA FACTS & STATS OF 2010 TodayIFoundout.com in Tube f. acebook crossed the 500 million active user mark in July 2010 and dominates the social media space by a huge margin, overtaking MySpace, with a user-base of around 122 million active users in 2009. To put that in perspective, if Facebook was a Country it would be the world's 3rd largest country in terms of population. - About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States v 50% of Facebook's active users log into the site on any given day - 200 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile phones. - People spend over II.67 billion man-hours per month on Facebook - More than I.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook daily. - Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day The Average Facebook user: spends about 55 minutes a day on the site. is connected to 80 community pages, groups & events has 130 friends creates 90 pieces of content each month Switter has over IIO million users, with an estimated 300,000 new users joining every day. - Twitter's search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day. - 75% of Twitter traffic, from about 180 million unique visitors a month, comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party apps). - There are more than 50,000 third-party apps for Twitter. Only a quarter of twitter's Twitter users tweet users tweet using the web- Twitter's 1O billionth platform. Half of all tweets an average of 55 million tweets come from 3rd party apps & a day! tweet was posted in March 2010 37% use their mobile devices. You Tube exceeds 2 billion views a day - Over 24 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube - More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years - There are 7,000 hours of full-length movies and shows on YouTube - You would have to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube. - 10% of YouTube's videos are available in HD, thatť's more HD content than any other online video site. - Music videos account for 20% of uploads on YouTube - YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day - YouTube uses the same amount of bandwidth per day as the entire Internet used in 2000 - The most popular YouTube vide0 – Justin Bieber, Baby ft. Ludacris has over 423,847,651 views. 0:01 / 2:42 Reddit Statstics pageviews average time per visit - bytes in bytes out - number of servers Jan 2010 250 million Dec 2010 829 million 12min4Isec 2.8 trillion 10.1 trillion 15min2lsec 8.1 trillion 444 trillion memory (ram) ~ 424 GB memory (disks) ~ 16 TB engineers - search - 50 119 1214 GB 48 TB 4 sucked 4 works Linked in has over 85 million members in over 200 countries. in - A new member joins LinkedIn every second. - LinkedIn receives almost 12 million unique visitors per day. - Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn. - Recruiters account for I-in-20 LinkedIn profiles. - 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool. Other Random Social Media Factoids StumbleUpon has 10.6 million users and regularly pushes big S traffic to online publishers. According to a new analysis by Web analytics company Woopra, StumbleUpon drives nearly twice as much traffic than Digg to external websites on a daily basis. - Social Media has overtaken porn as the #l activity on the Web v 90% of Internet users know at least one social network. - The average social user has 195 friends. ~| out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media networks (including me & my fiance, Thanks Stumbleupon!) - Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iTunes (3 Years)...Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months...iPhone applications hit I billion in 9 months. - Wikipedia has over 14 million articles, making it the largest encyclopedia of all time since September 9, 2007 when it surpassed the Yongle Encyclopedia of 1408, which had about one million pages... If you were paid $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $ 156.23 per hour. - Flickr hosts more than 4 billion images. W Blogging 2 - There are over 200,000,000 Blogs - 77% of all Internet users read blogs. ~ 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44 - One in five bloggers update their blogs daily. - Two thirds of bloggers are male. ~ 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands - More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog. Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog. f in Tube Sources: * Facebook Press Room * Huffington Post * YOUTube Press Statistics * Linkedin FAQ's & Stats * Online Media Gazette * StumbleUpon Press * Socialnomics * Social Media Today OTodayIFoundOut.com Designed by Noreen (BuzzFactory.net) TODAY I FOUND OUT... All total, about 1.83 billion man-hours are spent per day on social networks and blog sites by all the internet surfers of the world combined. This is about 22% of all time spent online every day. That said, hese's a look at. 50 FASCINATING SOCIAL MEDIA FACTS & STATS OF 2010 TodayIFoundout.com in Tube f. acebook crossed the 500 million active user mark in July 2010 and dominates the social media space by a huge margin, overtaking MySpace, with a user-base of around 122 million active users in 2009. To put that in perspective, if Facebook was a Country it would be the world's 3rd largest country in terms of population. - About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States v 50% of Facebook's active users log into the site on any given day - 200 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile phones. - People spend over II.67 billion man-hours per month on Facebook - More than I.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook daily. - Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day The Average Facebook user: spends about 55 minutes a day on the site. is connected to 80 community pages, groups & events has 130 friends creates 90 pieces of content each month Switter has over IIO million users, with an estimated 300,000 new users joining every day. - Twitter's search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day. - 75% of Twitter traffic, from about 180 million unique visitors a month, comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party apps). - There are more than 50,000 third-party apps for Twitter. Only a quarter of twitter's Twitter users tweet users tweet using the web- Twitter's 1O billionth platform. Half of all tweets an average of 55 million tweets come from 3rd party apps & a day! tweet was posted in March 2010 37% use their mobile devices. You Tube exceeds 2 billion views a day - Over 24 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube - More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years - There are 7,000 hours of full-length movies and shows on YouTube - You would have to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube. - 10% of YouTube's videos are available in HD, thatť's more HD content than any other online video site. - Music videos account for 20% of uploads on YouTube - YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day - YouTube uses the same amount of bandwidth per day as the entire Internet used in 2000 - The most popular YouTube vide0 – Justin Bieber, Baby ft. Ludacris has over 423,847,651 views. 0:01 / 2:42 Reddit Statstics pageviews average time per visit - bytes in bytes out - number of servers Jan 2010 250 million Dec 2010 829 million 12min4Isec 2.8 trillion 10.1 trillion 15min2lsec 8.1 trillion 444 trillion memory (ram) ~ 424 GB memory (disks) ~ 16 TB engineers - search - 50 119 1214 GB 48 TB 4 sucked 4 works Linked in has over 85 million members in over 200 countries. in - A new member joins LinkedIn every second. - LinkedIn receives almost 12 million unique visitors per day. - Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn. - Recruiters account for I-in-20 LinkedIn profiles. - 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool. Other Random Social Media Factoids StumbleUpon has 10.6 million users and regularly pushes big S traffic to online publishers. According to a new analysis by Web analytics company Woopra, StumbleUpon drives nearly twice as much traffic than Digg to external websites on a daily basis. - Social Media has overtaken porn as the #l activity on the Web v 90% of Internet users know at least one social network. - The average social user has 195 friends. ~| out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media networks (including me & my fiance, Thanks Stumbleupon!) - Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iTunes (3 Years)...Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months...iPhone applications hit I billion in 9 months. - Wikipedia has over 14 million articles, making it the largest encyclopedia of all time since September 9, 2007 when it surpassed the Yongle Encyclopedia of 1408, which had about one million pages... If you were paid $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $ 156.23 per hour. - Flickr hosts more than 4 billion images. W Blogging 2 - There are over 200,000,000 Blogs - 77% of all Internet users read blogs. ~ 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44 - One in five bloggers update their blogs daily. - Two thirds of bloggers are male. ~ 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands - More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog. Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog. f in Tube Sources: * Facebook Press Room * Huffington Post * YOUTube Press Statistics * Linkedin FAQ's & Stats * Online Media Gazette * StumbleUpon Press * Socialnomics * Social Media Today OTodayIFoundOut.com Designed by Noreen (BuzzFactory.net) TODAY I FOUND OUT... All total, about 1.83 billion man-hours are spent per day on social networks and blog sites by all the internet surfers of the world combined. This is about 22% of all time spent online every day. That said, hese's a look at. 50 FASCINATING SOCIAL MEDIA FACTS & STATS OF 2010 TodayIFoundout.com in Tube f. acebook crossed the 500 million active user mark in July 2010 and dominates the social media space by a huge margin, overtaking MySpace, with a user-base of around 122 million active users in 2009. To put that in perspective, if Facebook was a Country it would be the world's 3rd largest country in terms of population. - About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States v 50% of Facebook's active users log into the site on any given day - 200 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile phones. - People spend over II.67 billion man-hours per month on Facebook - More than I.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook daily. - Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day The Average Facebook user: spends about 55 minutes a day on the site. is connected to 80 community pages, groups & events has 130 friends creates 90 pieces of content each month Switter has over IIO million users, with an estimated 300,000 new users joining every day. - Twitter's search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day. - 75% of Twitter traffic, from about 180 million unique visitors a month, comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party apps). - There are more than 50,000 third-party apps for Twitter. Only a quarter of twitter's Twitter users tweet users tweet using the web- Twitter's 1O billionth platform. Half of all tweets an average of 55 million tweets come from 3rd party apps & a day! tweet was posted in March 2010 37% use their mobile devices. You Tube exceeds 2 billion views a day - Over 24 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube - More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years - There are 7,000 hours of full-length movies and shows on YouTube - You would have to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube. - 10% of YouTube's videos are available in HD, thatť's more HD content than any other online video site. - Music videos account for 20% of uploads on YouTube - YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day - YouTube uses the same amount of bandwidth per day as the entire Internet used in 2000 - The most popular YouTube vide0 – Justin Bieber, Baby ft. Ludacris has over 423,847,651 views. 0:01 / 2:42 Reddit Statstics pageviews average time per visit - bytes in bytes out - number of servers Jan 2010 250 million Dec 2010 829 million 12min4Isec 2.8 trillion 10.1 trillion 15min2lsec 8.1 trillion 444 trillion memory (ram) ~ 424 GB memory (disks) ~ 16 TB engineers - search - 50 119 1214 GB 48 TB 4 sucked 4 works Linked in has over 85 million members in over 200 countries. in - A new member joins LinkedIn every second. - LinkedIn receives almost 12 million unique visitors per day. - Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn. - Recruiters account for I-in-20 LinkedIn profiles. - 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool. Other Random Social Media Factoids StumbleUpon has 10.6 million users and regularly pushes big S traffic to online publishers. According to a new analysis by Web analytics company Woopra, StumbleUpon drives nearly twice as much traffic than Digg to external websites on a daily basis. - Social Media has overtaken porn as the #l activity on the Web v 90% of Internet users know at least one social network. - The average social user has 195 friends. ~| out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media networks (including me & my fiance, Thanks Stumbleupon!) - Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iTunes (3 Years)...Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months...iPhone applications hit I billion in 9 months. - Wikipedia has over 14 million articles, making it the largest encyclopedia of all time since September 9, 2007 when it surpassed the Yongle Encyclopedia of 1408, which had about one million pages... If you were paid $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $ 156.23 per hour. - Flickr hosts more than 4 billion images. W Blogging 2 - There are over 200,000,000 Blogs - 77% of all Internet users read blogs. ~ 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44 - One in five bloggers update their blogs daily. - Two thirds of bloggers are male. ~ 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands - More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog. Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog. f in Tube Sources: * Facebook Press Room * Huffington Post * YOUTube Press Statistics * Linkedin FAQ's & Stats * Online Media Gazette * StumbleUpon Press * Socialnomics * Social Media Today OTodayIFoundOut.com Designed by Noreen (BuzzFactory.net) TODAY I FOUND OUT... All total, about 1.83 billion man-hours are spent per day on social networks and blog sites by all the internet surfers of the world combined. This is about 22% of all time spent online every day. That said, hese's a look at. 50 FASCINATING SOCIAL MEDIA FACTS & STATS OF 2010 TodayIFoundout.com in Tube f. acebook crossed the 500 million active user mark in July 2010 and dominates the social media space by a huge margin, overtaking MySpace, with a user-base of around 122 million active users in 2009. To put that in perspective, if Facebook was a Country it would be the world's 3rd largest country in terms of population. - About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States v 50% of Facebook's active users log into the site on any given day - 200 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile phones. - People spend over II.67 billion man-hours per month on Facebook - More than I.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook daily. - Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day The Average Facebook user: spends about 55 minutes a day on the site. is connected to 80 community pages, groups & events has 130 friends creates 90 pieces of content each month Switter has over IIO million users, with an estimated 300,000 new users joining every day. - Twitter's search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day. - 75% of Twitter traffic, from about 180 million unique visitors a month, comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party apps). - There are more than 50,000 third-party apps for Twitter. Only a quarter of twitter's Twitter users tweet users tweet using the web- Twitter's 1O billionth platform. Half of all tweets an average of 55 million tweets come from 3rd party apps & a day! tweet was posted in March 2010 37% use their mobile devices. You Tube exceeds 2 billion views a day - Over 24 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube - More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years - There are 7,000 hours of full-length movies and shows on YouTube - You would have to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube. - 10% of YouTube's videos are available in HD, thatť's more HD content than any other online video site. - Music videos account for 20% of uploads on YouTube - YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day - YouTube uses the same amount of bandwidth per day as the entire Internet used in 2000 - The most popular YouTube vide0 – Justin Bieber, Baby ft. Ludacris has over 423,847,651 views. 0:01 / 2:42 Reddit Statstics pageviews average time per visit - bytes in bytes out - number of servers Jan 2010 250 million Dec 2010 829 million 12min4Isec 2.8 trillion 10.1 trillion 15min2lsec 8.1 trillion 444 trillion memory (ram) ~ 424 GB memory (disks) ~ 16 TB engineers - search - 50 119 1214 GB 48 TB 4 sucked 4 works Linked in has over 85 million members in over 200 countries. in - A new member joins LinkedIn every second. - LinkedIn receives almost 12 million unique visitors per day. - Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn. - Recruiters account for I-in-20 LinkedIn profiles. - 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool. Other Random Social Media Factoids StumbleUpon has 10.6 million users and regularly pushes big S traffic to online publishers. According to a new analysis by Web analytics company Woopra, StumbleUpon drives nearly twice as much traffic than Digg to external websites on a daily basis. - Social Media has overtaken porn as the #l activity on the Web v 90% of Internet users know at least one social network. - The average social user has 195 friends. ~| out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media networks (including me & my fiance, Thanks Stumbleupon!) - Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iTunes (3 Years)...Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months...iPhone applications hit I billion in 9 months. - Wikipedia has over 14 million articles, making it the largest encyclopedia of all time since September 9, 2007 when it surpassed the Yongle Encyclopedia of 1408, which had about one million pages... If you were paid $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $ 156.23 per hour. - Flickr hosts more than 4 billion images. W Blogging 2 - There are over 200,000,000 Blogs - 77% of all Internet users read blogs. ~ 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44 - One in five bloggers update their blogs daily. - Two thirds of bloggers are male. ~ 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands - More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog. Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog. f in Tube Sources: * Facebook Press Room * Huffington Post * YOUTube Press Statistics * Linkedin FAQ's & Stats * Online Media Gazette * StumbleUpon Press * Socialnomics * Social Media Today OTodayIFoundOut.com Designed by Noreen (BuzzFactory.net) TODAY I FOUND OUT... All total, about 1.83 billion man-hours are spent per day on social networks and blog sites by all the internet surfers of the world combined. This is about 22% of all time spent online every day. That said, hese's a look at. 50 FASCINATING SOCIAL MEDIA FACTS & STATS OF 2010 TodayIFoundout.com in Tube f. acebook crossed the 500 million active user mark in July 2010 and dominates the social media space by a huge margin, overtaking MySpace, with a user-base of around 122 million active users in 2009. To put that in perspective, if Facebook was a Country it would be the world's 3rd largest country in terms of population. - About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States v 50% of Facebook's active users log into the site on any given day - 200 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile phones. - People spend over II.67 billion man-hours per month on Facebook - More than I.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook daily. - Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day The Average Facebook user: spends about 55 minutes a day on the site. is connected to 80 community pages, groups & events has 130 friends creates 90 pieces of content each month Switter has over IIO million users, with an estimated 300,000 new users joining every day. - Twitter's search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day. - 75% of Twitter traffic, from about 180 million unique visitors a month, comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party apps). - There are more than 50,000 third-party apps for Twitter. Only a quarter of twitter's Twitter users tweet users tweet using the web- Twitter's 1O billionth platform. Half of all tweets an average of 55 million tweets come from 3rd party apps & a day! tweet was posted in March 2010 37% use their mobile devices. You Tube exceeds 2 billion views a day - Over 24 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube - More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years - There are 7,000 hours of full-length movies and shows on YouTube - You would have to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube. - 10% of YouTube's videos are available in HD, thatť's more HD content than any other online video site. - Music videos account for 20% of uploads on YouTube - YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day - YouTube uses the same amount of bandwidth per day as the entire Internet used in 2000 - The most popular YouTube vide0 – Justin Bieber, Baby ft. Ludacris has over 423,847,651 views. 0:01 / 2:42 Reddit Statstics pageviews average time per visit - bytes in bytes out - number of servers Jan 2010 250 million Dec 2010 829 million 12min4Isec 2.8 trillion 10.1 trillion 15min2lsec 8.1 trillion 444 trillion memory (ram) ~ 424 GB memory (disks) ~ 16 TB engineers - search - 50 119 1214 GB 48 TB 4 sucked 4 works Linked in has over 85 million members in over 200 countries. in - A new member joins LinkedIn every second. - LinkedIn receives almost 12 million unique visitors per day. - Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn. - Recruiters account for I-in-20 LinkedIn profiles. - 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool. Other Random Social Media Factoids StumbleUpon has 10.6 million users and regularly pushes big S traffic to online publishers. According to a new analysis by Web analytics company Woopra, StumbleUpon drives nearly twice as much traffic than Digg to external websites on a daily basis. - Social Media has overtaken porn as the #l activity on the Web v 90% of Internet users know at least one social network. - The average social user has 195 friends. ~| out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media networks (including me & my fiance, Thanks Stumbleupon!) - Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iTunes (3 Years)...Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months...iPhone applications hit I billion in 9 months. - Wikipedia has over 14 million articles, making it the largest encyclopedia of all time since September 9, 2007 when it surpassed the Yongle Encyclopedia of 1408, which had about one million pages... If you were paid $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $ 156.23 per hour. - Flickr hosts more than 4 billion images. W Blogging 2 - There are over 200,000,000 Blogs - 77% of all Internet users read blogs. ~ 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44 - One in five bloggers update their blogs daily. - Two thirds of bloggers are male. ~ 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands - More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog. Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog. f in Tube Sources: * Facebook Press Room * Huffington Post * YOUTube Press Statistics * Linkedin FAQ's & Stats * Online Media Gazette * StumbleUpon Press * Socialnomics * Social Media Today OTodayIFoundOut.com Designed by Noreen (BuzzFactory.net)