A brief overview of social media stats for Ireland in April 2010 based on input from Social Media Ireland group on LinkedIn.

1. An Overview of Social Media in Ireland
April 2010
Facebook Ireland Stats1:
1,418,100 Facebook accounts in Ireland:
847k active daily users
83% of users come back to facebook every week
73% penetration of the online population
55 / 45 Male / Female
27% of users are > 35 years of age
35% of users are 25 - 34 years of age
91% are >18 years of age (1,286,960)
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LinkedIn:
25,000 Irish LinkedIn accounts
Twitter
3
150,000 Twitter users in Ireland
FourSquare:
4
January 2010: 3,000 Irish FourSquare users
Irish Discussion Forums
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Boards.ie
From January 1 to April 13, 2010:
Visitors: 5,197,049 Pageviews: 98,213,363
Visits: 13,763,871 Average time spent on site 09:43
.
o 70% traffic from search engines
o 76% Irish traffic
o 321,781 members, with 163,316 of those active in the last 365 days and 88,003 active since January
1, 2010.
o 34,947 new members in 2010.
o So far in 2010, there has been on average and approximately new 949 threads and 16177 posts on
average per day.
o Top Boards.ie forums are:
1 After Hours 6 Relationship Issues
2 Bargain Alerts 7 Cycling
3 Motors 8 Airsoft
4 Soccer 9 Athletics/Running/Triathlon
5 Personal Issues 10 Weather
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Other Irish Forums
Site name Page PV % Unique UV % Sessions US %
Views Change Visitors Change Change
rollercoaster.ie 8,179,908 13.5 141,148 9.5 567,028 12.9
weddingsonline.ie 5,913,357 10 88,523 -28.9 326,517 7.1
eumom.ie 1,090,038 -1.6 43,133 8.3 112,151 9.9
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From Facebook Ireland, April 2010
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From Barry Hand
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From Barry Hand (http://www.barryhand.ie/blog/how-many-twitter-users-are-there-in-ireland/)
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From Niall Fagan at SimplyZesty.com
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Stats as of April 13 , from Darragh Doyle at Boards.ie
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From Ireland Metrix for March 2010