2. Officially, social media is “an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos, and audio.” http://www.wikipedia.org
3. It’s a fancy way of describing the conversations people are having online
9. Because 1 in 8 of all couples married in the US last year met via Social Media
10. Because in 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 everyday
12. In 2010 Facebook accounted for 25% of all page views in the US Because if it was a country, Facebook would be the 3rd largest in the world !
13. The average Facebook user - Spends 55 minutes a day on Facebook Logs on multiple times a day Has 190 friends Creates 90 pieces of content each month
15. Twitter’s search engine receives 800 million search queries per day 85 million Tweets per day Twitter’s 10 billionth Tweet was posted in March 2010 Stats recorded August 2010
17. You would have to live for around 1000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube
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19. A new member joins every second 85 million members in over 200 countries Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn 12 million unique visitors every day
20. Wikipedia has 14 million articles making it the largest encyclopedia of all time.Studies have shown it to be more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica.
25. Years to reach 50 million users... Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months
26. Years to reach 50 million users... iPhone application downloads hit 1 billion in 9 months
27. Blogs The word blog is irrelevant. What's important is that it is now common, and will soon be expected, that every intelligent person (and quite a few unintelligent ones) will have a media platform where they share what they care about with the world.” Seth Godin, Author
28. 200,000,000 Blogs 77% of internet users read blogs On average bloggers use 5 different Social Media sites to drive traffic to their blog