Social media is undoubtedly taking over the world, as we know it. However, not many of us realize just how big of impact platforms like Facebook, twitter and Pinterest have had on society and humankind as a whole. Here are a few interesting social media facts that would blow you mind!
1. “Facebook” and “Twitter” have become two common kids’ names in Egypt.
2. By 2012, Justin Bieber had amassed 35,073,200+ Twitter followers which exceeded the population of his homeland Canada by roughly 73, 000.
3. 75 percent of all handheld devices used to connect to the internet are used to make updates on social media while in the toilet.
4. For every 7 minutes that a person spends online, 1 minute is spent on Facebook.
5. Google+ is popular mostly among men while 68 percent of all Pinterest users are women,
6. Today, Facebook is the 3rd most populace “country” in the world after China and India with 1 billion “people”.
7. 18 to 34 years olds account for 48 percent of all users on Facebook.
8. 79 percent people in United States admit that they ‘like’ something on Facebook only to get a discount.
9. on 21st March, 2006, the first ever tweet was made. It took the site 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to reach a billion tweets. The site takes roughly a week to reach a billion tweets today.
10. 32 percent of all internet users use twitter.
11. LinkedIn, the social media site for maintaining professional contacts only, has more than 161 million members today.
12. Pinterest gets more traffic than LinkedIn, Google+ and You Tube and is the single fastest growing social network today.
13. In the last 2 years, the number of people accessing the internet via a mobile phone reached 818.4 million, which represents an increase of 60.3 percent.
14. Out of its 1.1 billion-strong community, 751 million users access Facebook through mobile.
15. 21 percent of the entire internet population uses Twitter.
16. The fastest growing age demographic on Twitter is 55-64 year olds which account for 79 percent of all active users.
17. Every month, 6 billion hours of videos are watched on YouTube.
18. YouTube has a wider reach amongst U.S. adults between the ages of 18-34 than any cable network in the country.
19. LinkedIn has more than a million groups which are expected to double by the end of 2013.
20. Facebook for Mobile today generates roughly 30 percent of all ad revenue for the website.
