Drinkin’ the Social Media Kool-Aid yet?
Some Social Media Statistics
- More than half the population is under 30
- 96% of Millennials have joined a social network
- Facebook has more internet traffic than Google.
- YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world.
- Amazon sold more e-books for the Kindle than physical books on Christmas
- 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
- 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
- If you were paid $1 for each posted Wikipedia article, you’d make $1,712.32 per hour!
- 80% of companies use social media for recruitment
- Social Media is the #1 activity on the web.
Facebook records 60 million status updates that inform people of what friends are doing. Twitter records 50 million tweets a day (source: twitter) and a large number of that is news from around the world. We no longer search for news, the news simply finds us.
Source: cleancutmedia.com May 2010
Whether you are a small business, large corporation or individual – Still not drinkin’ it?
Do these numbers surprise you? Please comment.
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