Interesting social media statistics, as we launch with our own Facebook and Twitter pages.

Social media is now a way of life for most people and its fast becoming a way of communication for businesses. This month gizmo launches its Twitter and Facebook pages so we've decided to take a look at some interesting stats on five of the best-known social media forums - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and blogging.

The Facebook press office provides some interesting stats:

• the average Facebook user has 130 friends
• more than 150 million people engage with Facebook every month
• people spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook

In terms of Twitter – stats are similarly interesting:

• twitter gets more than 300,000 new users every day
• twitter started as a simple SMS-text service
• over 60% of Twitter use is outside the US

LinkedIn is the oldest of the sites and its stats include:

• more than 70 million users worldwide
• 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool
• executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn

YouTube is a creative way for GenY to showcase content – stats include:

• the first video was uploaded in April 2005 and by June 2006, more than 65,000 videos were being uploaded every day
• YouTube receives more than 2 billion viewers per day
• every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.

Finally, blogging has become an innovative way to get a discussion going in a public forum:

• 77% of Internet users read blogs
• 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44
• corporate blogging accounts for 14% of blogs.

So if you think that social media is a fad; a phase that GenY is going through then think again! As the above stats show even corporates are now wising up to the effective and cut through use of social media.

Source: Brown, Danny; DannyBrown.me

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