Social Media Statistics
Feb 2nd
Opinions abound on Social Media. How it works, where it works best, how individuals and businesses can use it best, etc. Each of these opinions have their own intrinsic value, but sometimes, nothing beats cold hard numbers. As Joe Friday said, “All we want are the facts, ma’am,”- let’s take a look at some Social Media statistics.
- Facebook receives and shares more than 3.5 billion pieces of content (links, news stories, blog posts) on a weekly basis.
- Facebook pages have generated more than 5.3 billion fans.
- Approximately 700,000 local businesses have active Facebook fan pages.
- Approximately 70 percent of Facebook users arrive from outside the United States.
- Over 250 Facebook applications have over 1 million combined users each month.
- Since December 2008, more than 80,000 websites have integrated Facebook Connect. More than 60 million Facebook users actively use this service across any number of these 80,000+ sites that offer the feature.
- 55-65 year old females make up the fastest growing segment on Facebook
- Facebook paid $0 to have their entire site translated into Spanish via a crowdsourced Wiki. The site was translated in less than 4 weeks.
Baby Boomers flock to Social Networking in 2009
Feb 1st
There’s no arguing that 2009 was a banner year for online social networking platforms. Obviously, the big players in the field, Facebook and Twitter, saw a healthy increase in user activity. A new report from eMarketer might just point to the reason why: Baby Boomers went from online consumers of digital media to social busy-bees.
The report analyzes 4 unique market segments, Millenials (14-26), Gen X (27-43), Baby Boomers (44-63) and Mature (63-75). Not surprisingly, both Millenials and Gen X ‘ers (myself included) have maintained consistently high levels of social media profiles over the past three years. Conversely, Baby Boomers and Matures saw a massive growth rate in 2009.
Looking at the numbers, 31 percent of Baby Boomers and 14 percent of Matures actively attended to (i.e. status updates, photo uploads, etc.) their profiles in 2008, while one year later, these numbers have seen a significant jump: 46 percent and 36 percent, respectively, in 2009.
Top 10 examples of Data Visualization
Jul 5th
With the tremendous amount of data circulating the internet at any given moment, it’d be nice to see some graphic representations of what’s actually happening, instead of just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s.
Add to that the what would most certainly be a maddening exercise in trying to find related content to the mix, and data visualizations become all the more important. These data visualizations below represent to me the most meaningful and useful tools available. They cover everything from Digg activity to Network connectivity, to simply watching the world tweet the day away.
Music and Movies
DandyID
Facebook
Amazon Wish List
Blip.fm
Flickr
YouTube
Delicious
Digg
Friendfeed
Stumbleupon
Twitter
last.fm
Linkedin
Vimeo
identi.ca
Twitpic
Disqus
Dopplr
FourSquare
Google Profiles
gowalla
Raptr
