17
Mar
Social media 'stats' that will blow your mind...
We are increasingly encouraged to
blog this, flicker that and face book the other, before you know it
you're twittering here, digging there and Googling everywhere... As
our electronic and physical lives become further obscured in the
virtual cloud that is internet, the web has, for many, become an
integral part of their lives, it is our primary source of
communication and networking, a place where we work, rest and
play...
Just how integrated into our lives and how reliant we've become
on social networking and web 2.0 sites is scarily illustrated when
you start looking at the statistical analysis, the numbers are mind
blowing and truly awesome.
Below is a snap shot of the statistics from some of the major
social networking and web 2.0 sites on the net today, as I say
awesome, enjoy...
Google search stats:
Rough number of daily searches:
2004: 2,000,000 (two million) per day
2008: 2,000,000,000 (two billion) per day
1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) - approximate number of unique
URLs in Google's index.
$110,000,000 - approximately amount of money lost by Google
annually due to the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button
24,400 - number of people employed by Google (December,
2008)
68,000,000 - the average number of times people Googled the word
'Google' each month for the last year
$39.96 - the average cost per click for the phrase
"consolidation of school loans" in AdWords
1,430,000 - the number of Google results for "Robert Scoble"
136,000 - the number of Google results for "Admiral Ackbar"
Wikipedia stats:
2,695,205 - the number of articles in English on Wikipedia
684,000,000 - the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last
year
75,000 - the number of active contributors to Wikipedia
10,000,000 - the number of total articles in Wikipedia in all
languages
260 - the number of languages articles have been written in on
Wikipedia
YouTube stats:
70,000,000 - Number of total videos on YouTube (March 2008)
200,000 - Number of video publishers on YouTube (March 2008)
100,000,000 - Number of YouTube videos viewed per day (this stat
from 2006 is the most recent I could locate)
112,486,327 - Number of views the most viewed video on YouTube
has (January, 2009)
2 minutes 46.17 seconds - average length of video
412.3 years - Length in time it would take to view all content
on YouTube (March 2008)
26.57 - Average age of up loader
13 hours - Amount of video that's uploaded to YouTube every
minute
US $1.65 Billion in Google stock - amount Google Inc. announced
that it had acquired YouTube for in October 2006
$1,000,000 - YouTube's estimated bandwidth costs per day
Blog - osphere stats:
133,000,000 - number of blogs indexed by Technorati since
2002
346,000,000 - number of people globally who read blogs
7.4 million - Number of Blogs posted in the last 120 days
900,000 - Average number of blog posts in a 24 hour period
1,750,000 - Number of RSS subscribers to TechCrunch, the most
popular Technology blog (January 2009)
77% - percentage of active Internet users who read blogs
55% - percentage of the blogosphere that drinks more than 2 cups
of coffee per day
81 - number of languages represented in the blogosphere
59% - percentage of bloggers who have been blogging for at least
2 years
Twitter stats:
1,111,991,000 - Number of Tweets to date
3,000,000 - Number of Tweets/day(March 2008)
165,414 - Number of followers of the most popular Twitter user
(@BarackObama) - but he's not active
86,078 - number of followers of the most active Twitter user
(@kevinrose)
63% - percentage of Twitter users that are male
Facebook stats:
150,000,000 - number of active users
170 - number of countries/territories that use Facebook
35 - number of different languages used on Facebook
2,600,000,000 - number of minutes global users in aggregate
spend on Facebook daily
100 - number of friends the average user has
700,000,000 - number of photos added to Facebook monthly
52,000 - number of applications currently available on
Facebook
140 - number of new applications added per day
Digg stats:
236,000,000 - number of visitors attracted annually by 2008
(according to a Compete survey)
56% - percentage of Digg's frontpage content allegedly
controlled by top 100 users
612 - number of stories from Cracked.com that have made page 1
of Digg
37,925 - number of Diggs the most popular story in the last 365
days has received see story, click here
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