Yesterday I received an email from a friend, the title was "20 Facts about Social Media that will make you go WOW !", and it really did make me go wow. I couldn't be selfish so I decided to share it with all of you.
Before I list the facts, I have to give credit to the agency who worked really hard to get those facts together, its called 'McCollins Media', and they do a whole bunch of cool stuff related to Design, PR, Social Media and Web.
Now here you go, I'll let you be amazed and "Wow-ed" :)!
1. Internet Users in the Middle East has risen to 63.2 million by 2010
2. In Middle East, Iran is the country with the maximum Internet penetration ratio.
3. There was an increase of 14% in the number of Internet users worldwide in 2010.
4. At the end of 2010, there were 88.8 Million domain names registered in total !
5. Number of Blogs has risen to 152 million by 2010.
6. The average number of videos watched on YouTube is 2 Billion.
7. Number of videos watched on Facebook is higher than YouTube. Approximately 2.5 Billion/day.
8. Number of photos uploaded to Flickr per month = 130 Million
9. Number of Facebook applications installed everyday is 20 Million
10. As of December 2010, there were 255 million websiteslive on the internet.
11. Every minute 35 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
12. Total number of Instant Messaging users by 2010 is 2.4 billion !.
13. Total number of Twitter users by 2010 = 175 million !
14. 250 million New people registered on Facebook in 2010
15. 70% of Facebook’s userbase is outside the U.S
16. By 2010, there are more than 5 Billion mobile connections in the world !
17. The average number of videos an Internet user in U.S watches on the internet = 186
18. The average number of photos uploaded on facebook per year = 36 billion.
19. Number of new users on Twitter in 2010 = 100 Million
20. The most popular browser on the internet today is Internet Explorer, despite fierce competition from Firefox and Chrome.
Isn't that Just amazing?
Social Media is everywhere! and by using it, companies, businesses, brands and others can promote themselves and work their way through to people.
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Innas A.
I totally agree with you, social media is becoming a very important online tool, not only help you to communicate with your friends and family, but also can help you to get your company known.
ReplyDeleteAs it is well known social media is world wide phenomenon but in order to give some more info about my country:
48% of all Internet users in Mexico are 15 – 24, compared with 35% in Latin America, and 26% worldwide.
Therefore Mexico is a country that uses social platforms in a really high standard. Nowadays this have influenced companies´marketing strategies.
I am wowed!!! Although I have to say as impressive as technology is nowadays I have to wonder how much it is taking away from the act of 'real communication' for example a phone call, actually hearing someones voice. For example online universities- there is no way that experience can compare to actually personally interacting with real people in a real classroom. On the other hand however it does give people the ability to learn who would otherwise not have the option... Good facts Innas :)
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that 70% of Facebook users were outside of the US, or that the number of blogs out there was so high! I also found it interesting to know that Iran had the highest amount of internet penetration in the Middle East. Cute picture too we do seem to be all getting on the social media band wagon. Might I suggest you include a graph or visual aid that represent the numbers you talked about it could make the numbers stand out more and be easier to remember.
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