There is no doubt that social media has become an integral part of internet over the past few years, gone are the days when online socializing was confined to personal socializing. The very fact that '$716 million were spent on social media marketing in 2010' proves how seriously social media is taken by companies and individuals all over the globe; it is predicted that this figure might reach $3.1 billion by 2014.
In order to bring a little more prospective we have compiled few fun and fascinating facts about social media in the year 2010. Some of figures are not that surprising but there are some facts that will definitely give you something to ponder on.
- If Facebook was a country, it would have been the 3rd largest country in the world.
- More than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites.
- Around 200 million active users access Facebook through their mobile phones.
- The percentage of Facebook users outside the US is 70%.
- More than 1.5 million pieces of content like web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos etc. are shared on Facebook everyday.
- More than 700,000 local businesses have active Facebook pages.
- In the year 2010, 25 billion tweets were sent.
- Twitter users tweet an average of 55 million tweets per day.
- Twitter's search engine receives around 600 million tweets per day.
- YouTube exceeds 2 billion views per day.
- Every minute 35 hours of new video is uploaded on YouTube.
- Music videos account for 20% of uploads on YouTube.
- 70% of users on YouTube are from USA.
- 80% companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool.
- Wikipedia has over 17 million articles, making it the largest encyclopedia since 2007.
- 4.4% of Wikipedia editors are PhDs.
- If Wikipedia was to pay $1 for every article posted on the site, one would earn $156 per hour.
- There are more than 200,000,000 blogs.
- More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog.
- 77% of all internet users read blogs.
- 38% of bloggers post brand or product reviews.
- 25% of bloggers are engaged in mobile blogging.
- Flickr now hosts more then 4 billion images.
SOME MORE INTERESTING FACTS & FIGURES
- Social media networks and blogs consume nearly 25% of people's online time.
- Social media has taken over porn as #1 activity on the web.
- It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users, television took 13 years, internet took 4 years and iTunes took 3 years. Facebook had more than 100 million users in less then 9 months.
- In the year 2010, around 107 trillion emails were transferred over the net.
- World consists of approximately 6.8 billion people, there are around 2 billion internet users, out of which 450 million are from China alone.
- The number of people visiting social media sites has increased by 24% over the last year.
- Maximum number of users spending time on social networking sites are from Australia, followed by UK & USA.
MASHABLE AWARDS 2010
Like every year, Mashable conducted their annual contest where their readers vote for the very best in technology and web. With over 1.3 million nominations and votes, below are few highlights of Mashable 2010 Awards:
- Best Location Based Service: Foursquare
- Best Mobile Device: iPhone
- Best Music Discovery Service: Fizy
- Best Social Media Management Tool: Hootsuite
- Breakthrough Website Design: Twitter
- Most Creative Social Media Campaign: Stand Up for WWE
- Entrepreneur of the Year: Doug Walker (Thatguywiththeglasses.com)
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Wow, I feel very small in this big bowl! Thank you e-junkie for providing this informative information. I am pleased to be part of the Interesting Social Media Facts & Statistics 2010! Rock on e-junkie!