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

Studies have shown it to be more accurate

than Encyclopedia Britannica.

Years to reach 50 million users...

Radio – 38 Years

Television - 13 Years

Internet – 4 Years

iTunes – 3 Years

Facebook added 100 million users in less than

9 months

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

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 !

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