Social Media is about relationships …
- Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the US.
- If facebook were a county it’d be the world’s 3rd largest.
- A new member joins LinkedIn every second.
- We don’t have a choice on whether we do social media, the questions in how well we do it.” Eric Qualman
- Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Brittany Spears have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Sweden, Israel, Greece, Chile, North Korea, and Australia.
- 50% of the mobile Internet traffic in the UK is for Facebook…. Imagine what this means for bad customer experiences.
- Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passe’.
- YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world.
- If Wikipedia were made in to a book it would be 2.25 MILLION pages long….. Would YOU use it? It would take you over 123 years to read.
- 90% of consumers trust peer recommendations, only 14% trust advertisements.
- 93% of social marketers use social media for business.
- 75 percent of Brand ‘Likes’ on Facebook come from advertisements. (Mashable)
- More than 250 million people use Facebook Connect every month. (Facebook)
- College-aged kids (18-24) made up the fastest growing segment of users on Facebook in 2010. (AllFacebook.com)
- Chicago was the fastest growing city on Facebook in terms of usage in 2010 (Houston was a close second). (AllFacebook.com)
- During the average 20-minute period in 2010, there were: 1,5870,000 wall posts, 2,716,000 photos uploaded and 10,208,000 comments posted. (AllFacebook.com)
- Indonesia has the second largest population on Facebook http://bit.ly/gBbMrL
- Since April, Twitter has gained 40 million users and a 62% increase in mobile use of the platform (Source: ClickZ)
- From December 2009 to December 2010, users with a biography listed on Twitter increased from 31% to 69%. (Pew)
- Friday at 4 p.m. ET: The most retweetable day/time of the week. (via Dan Zarella and HubSpot)
- 48%: The percentage of Twitter users that either never or rarely check Twitter. (The Next Web).
Habits
- The average American Internet user watches 30 minutes of video online per day [40% increase over 2009] (comScore) Compared to 5 hours of television per day.
- 22% of Fortune 500 companies now have a public-facing blog that has at least one post in the past 12 months (comScore).
- 4% of adults on the Internet use location-based services (Pew Internet Research).
- Social networking site usage grew 88% among Internet users aged 55-64 between April 2009 and May 2010 (Pew Research).
- In 2009, social gamers bought $2.2 billion in virtual goods; Predicted to increase to $6 billion by 2013. (NPD Group).
- 75%: The percentage of U.S. iPad users that are interested in seeing videos within magazine ads on their iPad. (eMarketer via David Erickson).
- The change in social media use among Baby Boomers 55-64 rose from 9% in Dec. 2008 to 43% in Dec. 2010 (Marketingcharts.com via David Erickson).Article originally published on erikhanson.com
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