27 November 2011
It is estimated that there are now over 200 active sites using a wide variety of social networking models.
46 percent of people globally access a social network every day.
Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. There are more than 2bn video views on YouTube every 24 hours.
Every minute, 66,667 tweets are made on Twitter. - 95 million tweets are written each day.
Every hour, approximately 10.5 million songs are illegally downloaded.
Everyday 2,300 new Wikipedia articles are created adding to it's 17 million articles, with contributions from 91,000 active contributors.
Every day, more than 175 million Facebook user log on to Facebook.
50% of it's users login every day, 200 million login everyday from a mobile devise.
People spend over 700 billion minutes each month on Facebook with more than 30bn pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, etc.) shared each month, which is an average of 7bn pieces a week.
More than one million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages. There were nearly 2bn people searches on Linkedin during 2010.
The average profile age on LinkedIn is 40 years, Twitter 35 years. Facebook's biggest age group of followers is now in the 35-54 range.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that those on these sites are just kids.
Social Media has changed the world. It's official.
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