Some official statistics on social media from the owners themselves
1) Facebook-
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
Date -17 Nov 2011
Statistics
People on Facebook
- More than 800 million active users
- More than 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- Average user has 130 friends
Activity on Facebook
- More than 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
- Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
- On average, more than 250 million photos are uploaded per day
Global Reach
- More than 70 languages available on the site
- More than 75% of users are outside of the United States
- Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
Platform
- On average, people on Facebook install apps more than 20 million times every day
- Every month, more than 500 million people use an app on Facebook or experience Facebook Platform on other websites
- More than 7 million apps and websites are integrated with Facebook
Mobile
- More than 350 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile devices
- More than 475 mobile operators globally work to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
2) LinkedIN
November 3rd, 2011
- Members grew to 131.2 million, an increase of 63% from the third quarter of 2010
- Average comScore unique visitors of 87.6 million per month, an increase of 64% from the third quarter of 2010; total comScore page views of 7.6 billion, an increase of 51% from the third quarter of 2010
3) Twitter
Thursday, September 08, 2011
100 million active users around the globe turn to Twitter to share their thoughts and find out what’s happening in the world right now.
More than half of them log in to Twitter each day to follow their interests. For many, getting the most out of Twitter isn’t only about tweeting: 40 percent of our active users simply sign in to listen to what’s happening in their world.
Leaders. Thirty-five global heads of state use Twitter as a primary way to communicate with their constituencies
More than 40 percent of the top global religious leaders are on Twitter
Humanitarians. Additionally, over 99 percent of America’s top 200 non-profits are on Twitter.
Sports US professional sports players are active on Twitter, including two-thirds of the NBA. Every team in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS tweets, as do cricket players in India and European football stars
Entertainers. Eighty-seven percent of Billboard’s Top 100 musicians of 2010 are active on Twitter
4) Google Plus-
10/13/2011
said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “ Google+ is now open to everyone and we just passed the 40 million user mark”
Over a 3.4 billion photos have already been uploaded in Google+
5) Youtube
Traffic
- 48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, resulting in nearly 8 years of content uploaded every day
- Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day
- Users upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week
- More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years
- 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
- YouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43 languages
- YouTube’s demographic is broad: 18-54 years old
- YouTube reached over 700 billion playbacks in 2010
- 800M unique users visit YouTube each month
YouTube Partner Program
- Created in 2007, we now have 20,000+ partners from 22 countries around the world
- We pay out millions of dollars a year to partners
- Hundreds of partners are making six figures a year, and the number of partners making over $1,000 a month is up 300% since 2010
Monetization
- YouTube is monetizing over 3 billion video views per week globally
- 98 of AdAge’s Top 100 advertisers have run campaigns on YouTube and the Google Display Network
- The number of advertisers using display ads on YouTube increased 10 fold in the last year
Product Metrics
- We have more HD content than any other online video site
- We have thousands of full-length movies on YouTube
- 10% of YouTube’s videos are available in HD
- YouTube mobile gets over 400M views a day (up 3x year/year), representing 13% of our daily views
- The YouTube player is embedded across tens of millions of websites
Content ID
- Content ID scans over 100 years of video every day
- More than 2,000 partners use Content ID, including every major US network broadcaster, movie studio and record label
- We have more than six million reference files (over 300,000 hours of material) in our Content ID database; it’s among the most comprehensive in the world. The number has doubled in the last year
- Over a third of YouTube’s total monetized views come from Content ID
- More than 120 million videos have been claimed by Content ID
Social
- Nearly 17 million people have connected their YouTube account to at least one social service (Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, Buzz, etc)
- Over 12 million people are connected and auto-sharing to at least one social network
- 150 years of YouTube video are watched every day on Facebook (up 2.5x year/year) and every minute more than 500 tweets contain YouTube links (up 3x y/y)
- 100 million people take a social action on YouTube (likes, shares, comments, etc) every week
- An auto-shared tweet results in 6 new youtube.com sessions on average, and we see more than 500 tweets per minute containing a YouTube link
- Millions of subscriptions happen each day. Subscriptions allow you to connect with someone you’re interested in — whether it’s a friend, or the NBA — and keep up on their activity on the site
- More than 50% of videos on YouTube have been rated or include comments from the community
- Millions of videos are favorited every day
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