412.3 YEARS
The length of time it would take to view every YouTube video.
13 HOURS
The amount of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
100,000,000
The number of YouTube videos viewed per day.
13,000,000
The number of articles available on Wikipedia.
3,600,000,000
The number of photos archived on Flickr.com as of June 2009.
That’s roughly 1 photo per every 2 people on the planet.
1382%
The monthly growth rate of Twitter users from January to February 2009.
3,000,000
The average number of Tweets per day on Twitter.com
5,000,000,000
The number of minutes spent on Facebook each day.
1,000,000,000
The amount of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.)shared each week on Facebook.
5,000,000
The number of active Barack Obama supporters across 15 social networks.
14,200,000
The number of views Obama’s famous “Yes We Can” video got on YouTube.
An additional 15 of the 1,800 official and 139,000 unofficial Obama videos received over 1 Million views.
$6,500,000
The amount of money 3 Million online donors contributed to the 2008 Obama campaign.
IF FACEBOOK WERE A COUNTRY, IT WOULD BE THE 8TH MOST POPULATED IN THE WORLD,JUST AHEAD OF JAPAN.
85% of social media users believe that a company should go further than just having a presence on social sites and should also interact with its customers.
3 Out of 4 Americans use social Technology .
There are 7.1 mn User on orkut and 1.6mn Facebook user in India (till 2008 )
2/3 Of the global Internet population visit Social Networks.
Visiting social site is now the 4th most popular online activity –ahead of personal email
Time spent on social networks is growing at 3X the overall internet rate, Accounting for `10% of all internet time
The top three people on Twitter (Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears) have more combined followers than the entire population of Austria.
It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million listeners.
Terrestrial TV took 13 years to reach 50 million users.
The internet took 4 years to reach 50 million people.
.. In less than 9 months, Facebook added 100 million users.
The online bookmarking service, Delicious, has more than five million users and over 150 million unique bookmarked URLs.
Social networks and blogs are the 4th most popular online activities online, including beating personal email. 67% of global users visit member communities and 10% of all time spent on the internet is on social media sites.
Cheers
Anup Tiwari
Source :
Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, March ,2009
Forrester, The Growth Of Social Technology Adoption, 2008
Mark Zuckerberg, January 7, 2009
Cone, Business in Social Media Study, September 2008
