Statistics
- As of 2014 surveys, it was found that there was 2.03 billion active users of social media globally, forming a penetration rate of 28%.
- On Facebook, there is a total of 1320 million active users, 343 million on Google+, 300 million on LinkedIn, 271 million on Twitter and 230 million on Tumblr.
- Of these users, those in between the ages of 15-19 spend and average 3 hours daily on social media, those in between the ages of 20-29 spend 2 hours each day.
- Collectively, 39,757 years of our time are spent on Facebook daily.
- Each day, 5 million images are uploaded to Instagram, and the '+' button on Google+ is pressed 5 billion times.
- In the following 24 hours, Facebook's game 'Farmville' will sell more than $1 million in farming apparatus, outselling actual farming equipment.
- On the social media, Twitter, 65,000 tweets are uploaded each minute, with 93 million daily.
- YouTube has now become the second most used search engine, with Google still becoming the most used, with more than 1.5 billion hours uploaded each day, and 100 hours per minute.
- On Facebook, over 250 billion images are uploaded daily.
- Every second, there are 5 new Vines uploaded to the social networking site. However on LinkedIn, 2 new members join each second.