Twitter generates almost one in ten Social Media global hits to websites according to web analytics firm, StatCounter. The firm's research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that Facebook is the primary source of traffic to global websites with almost half (48%) of Social Media hits followed by StumbleUpon with almost a quarter (25%).
Is social media the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Eric Qualman from Socialnomics thinks so! This is another great visualisation of the latest social media statistics that always makes for a few minutes well spent watching! It provides a range of great stats like these…
By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers
96% of them have joined a social network
1 out of 8 couples married in the US last year have met via social media
Facebook added 100 million users in 9 months
If Facebook would be a country, it would be the world?s 4th largest
80% of companies are using LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees
80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices. People update anywhere, anytime. Imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world
There are over 200.000.000 Blogs. 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily.