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The rise and rise of social media

30th March 2011

Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Flixr keep growing 1 year on

 

20+ Mind-blowing social media statistics: One year later

By Jake Hird 

Then: Twitter has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis.

Now: Twitter now officially claims to have 175m registered users, although it's unclear what percentage regularly user the service. 

Then: LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide. 

Now: Officially, Linkedin has grown 100%, now having over 100m professionals who use the platform worldwide. 

 

Then: Facebook has 350 million active users on global basis.

Now: Facebook officially hit the half-billion member mark last year. According to figures from Socialbakers, there are now some 640m Facebook users worldwide.

Then: 50% of active users log into Facebook each day. This means at least 175m users every 24 hours.

Now: Still citing the 50% active rate, using the official 500m figure, this means at least 250m users every 24 hours. This is more than a 40% increase in 12 months.

 

Then: Flickr hosts more than 4bn images.

Now: Flickr continues to grow at a steady rate, having increased by some 25% in the last twelve months. At the end of 2010, it was hosting more than 5bn images.

Then: Wikipedia has 14m articles and 85,000 contributors.

Now: Wikipedia now has more 17m articles. The site now has an army of 91,000 active contributors.

Then: 65m users access Facebook through mobile-based devices.

Now: It may well be the year of mobile... For Facebook. Users accessing the site through mobile devices now tops 200m - an enormous 200% increase in around a twelve-month period.

 

Then: There are more than 3.5bn pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, etc.) shared each week on Facebook.

Now: Clearly, Facebook is still growing: More than 30bn pieces of content is shared each month, which is an average of 7bn pieces a week.

 

Then: There are 11m LinkedIn users across Europe.

Now: Go Europe! There are now 20m+ EU Linkedin members.

Then: The average number of tweets per day was over 27m.

Now: Twitter now states that 95m tweets are written each day. This is a staggering 250% increase.

Then: The average number of tweets per hour was around 1.3m.

Now: At the new rate of growth, its calculated that there are nearly 4m tweets per hour.

Some extra nuggets... 

  • More than 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute. 
  • Flickr members upload more than 3,000 images every minute.
  • More than one million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages (formerly known as company profiles).
  • The average Facebook user creates 90 pieces of content each month.
  • There are more than 2bn video views on YouTube every 24 hours. 
  • There were nearly 2bn people searches on Linkedin during 2010.
  • People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
  • People on Facebook install 20m applications every day

 

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