social media
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Social media
It’s about making you stand out from the crowd
Officially, social media is “an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos, and audio.”
http://www.wikipedia.org
It’s a fancy way of
describing the conversations
people are having online
Why should I care?
Because Social Media is a force to be reckoned with
Because Social Media is like word of mouth
on steroids
Because 90% of all internet users regularly interact with some form
of Social Media
Because Social Media has overtaken porn as the number 1 activity on the internet
Because 1 in 8 of all couples married in the US last year met via Social Media
Because in total about 1.83 billion man hours are spent per day on
Social Networks and Blog Sites by all the internet surfers of the
world combinedThis is about 22% of all time spent
online everyday
500 Million active users
700,000 new users added per day
Because if it was a country, Facebook would be the 3rd largest in the world !
In 2010 Facebook accounted for 25% of all page views in the US
Spends 55 minutes a day on Facebook
Logs on multiple times a day
Has 190 friends
Creates 90 pieces of content each month
The average Facebook user -
190 million users
300,000 joiningevery day
Twitter’s search engine receives 800
million search queries per day
Twitter’s 10 billionth Tweet was posted in
March 2010
85 million Tweets per day
Stats recorded August 2010
2+ Billion videos viewed every day
You would have to live for around 1000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube
85 million members in over 200 countries
A new member joins every second
12 million unique visitors
every day
Executives from all Fortune 500
companies are on LinkedIn
Wikipedia has 14 million articles making it the
largest encyclopedia of all
time.
Studies have shown it to be more accurate
than Encyclopedia Britannica.
Years to reach 50 million users...
Radio – 38 Years
Years to reach 50 million users...
Television - 13 Years
Years to reach 50 million users...
Internet – 4 Years
Years to reach 50 million users...
iTunes – 3 Years
Years to reach 50 million users...
Facebook added 100 million users in less than
9 months
Years to reach 50 million users...
iPhone application downloads hit 1 billion in 9
months
The word blog is irrelevant.What's important is that it is now common, and will soonbe expected, that every intelligent person (and quite a few unintelligent ones) will have a media platform where they share what they care about with the world.”Seth Godin, Author
Blogs
200,000,000 Blogs
77% of internet users read blogs
On average bloggers use 5 different Social Media sites to drive traffic to their blog
How can Social Media influence?
5,000,000 The number of
active Barack Obama supporters across 15 social networks
$6,500,000 The amount of money 3 million online voters contributed to the 2008 Obama campaign
14,200,000The number of views Obama’s famous “Yes we
can” video got on YouTube
Would he have won without it?
We’ll never know, but it sure helped !
So, did you like it ??