Social Media Statistics To Surprise You

I continue to be amazed by the growth of networking online. In some ways I find it hard to comprehend as the global figures are huge. Over at Econsultancy they showed some mind blowing statistics. I would pick out the following

• Social networks and blogs are the 4th most popular online activities online, including beating personal email. 67% of global users visit member communities and 10% of all time spent on the internet is on social media sites.
• If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth most populated place in the world. This means it easily beats the likes of Brazil, Russia and Japan in terms of size
• 80% of companies use, (or are planning to use), LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees during the course of this year. The site has just celebrated reaching its 45-millionth membership.
• It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million listeners. Terrestrial TV took 13 years to reach 50 million users. The internet took four years to reach 50 million people… In less than nine months, Facebook added 100 million users.
• It’s been suggested that YouTube is likely to serve over 75 billion video streams to around 375 million unique visitors during this year.
• The top three people on Twitter (Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears) have more combined followers than the entire population of Austria.*
• Formed in 2004, Flickr now hosts more than 3.6 billion user images.

Do you know that it isn’t that long ago that people used to say “Yes but who is going to blog, or it is just for tech people!” I remember podcasting and blogging for the first time and people asking me what they were!