rattanasamy: Social Media By The Numbers

Here is a break down of some random facts I researched about different social media outlets. Some pretty interesting numbers.

Twitter

The top followed Twitter user is Barak Obama with 119,662 followers.
CNN Breaking News is the 4th most followed account on Twitter with 51,463 followers.
40% of Twitter traffic is in the United States
60% of Twitter traffic is Internationally
23.4% of Twitter traffic is from Japan
6.6% of Twitter traffic is from Spain
6% of Twitter traffic is from the UK
4.2% of Twitter traffic is from Brazil
4.2% of Twitter traffic is from Canada
3.6% of Twitter traffic is from France
3.6% of Twitter traffic is from Germany
3% of Twitter traffic is from Italy
3% of Twitter traffic is from The Netherlands
1.8% of Twitter traffic is from Taiwan
As of October 2008, Twitter claims to have over 3,200,000 accounts registered
Twitter was started in July 13, 2006
In 2007, Twitter experienced approximately 98% uptime, or about 3 full days of downtime

Facebook

Facebook currently has more than 120 million active users worldwide (users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days)
Facebook is the 4th most-trafficked website in the world
Facebook is the most-trafficked social media site in the world
More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older
Maintain 85 percent market share of 4-year U.S. universities
Number 1 photo sharing application on the Web
More than 10 billion photos uploaded to the site
More than 30 million photos uploaded daily
More than 6 million active user groups on the site
More than 400,000 developers and entrepreneurs
Over 24,000 applications have been built on Facebook Platform
140 new applications added per day
More than 95% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on Facebook Platform
Facebook has over 600 employees
The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000
According to Facebook, it has received more than $40 million in funding since it launched in 2004

Myspace

MySpace has more than 110 million monthly active users around the globe
85% of MySpace users are 18 or older
1 in 4 Americans is on MySpace, in the UK it’s as common to have a MySpace as it is to own a dog
On average 300,000 new people sign up to MySpace every day
60,000 new videos being upload to MySpaceTV each day
More than 8 million artists and bands on MySpace Music Acts
MySpace was purchased in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch creator of a media empire that includes 20th Century Fox and the Fox television stations
Google paid $900 million to be MySpace's search provider

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is an online network of more than 30 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries
95% of LinkedIn members are college educated
37% are post graduates
24% have a portfolio value of $250k+
The average age of a LinkedIn professional is 41 years old
The household income is $110k
64% of LinkedIn professionals are male

Second Life

Second Life was launched June 23, 2003
At the beginning of September, 2008, just over 15 million accounts were registered
In January 2008, residents spent 28,274,505 hours "inworld", so on average about 38,000 residents were logged on at any particular moment
In 2006 former Governor of Virginia Mark Warner became the first politician to appear in a MMO when he gave a speech in Second Life
There are a total of 15,736,434 residents in Second Life
In October 2008, 127,417,424square meters of land was sold by residents

Flickr

As of November 2008, Flickr claims to host more than 3 billion images
Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver based company that launched Flickr in February 2004
In March 2005, Yahoo! acquired Ludicorp and Flickr
Despite having only a 2 megapixel camera, the iPhone continues to be the most popular cameraphone used on Flickr

YouTube

YouTube user base is in age range of 18-55, evenly divided between males and females, and spanning all geographies
51% of users go to YouTube weekly or more often
52% of 18-34 year-olds share videos often with friends and colleagues.
YouTube has 71 million unique users each month
YouTube is the 6th largest audience on the Internet
YouTube was the number one video site on the Internet as of January - with 67.5 million unique users in the U.S., according to Nielsen NetRatings
Every minute, 10 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube
Of the 9.5 billion online videos watched in the U.S. in November last year, 2.9 billion of those were watched on YouTube, according to Comscore
In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for 1.65 billion in Google stock
In the first month on YouTube, 70% of videos get at least 20 views
In the first month on YouTube, 50% of videos get at least 100 views
In the first month on YouTube, fewer than 20% of videos get more than 500 views
In the first month on YouTube, fewer than 10% of videos get more than 1, 500 views
In the first month on YouTube, 3% of videos get more than 25, 000 views
In the first month on YouTube, around 1% of videos get more than 500, 000 views

Technorati

Since 2002, Over 70 million weblogs are tracked by Technorati.
76,000 blogs with Technorati Authroity of 50+
57% of U.S. bloggers are male
42% of U.S. bloggers are between the ages of 18-34
26% of U.S. bloggers are single
56% of U.S. bloggers have full-time jobs
74% of U.S. bloggers are college graduates
52% of U.S. blogs have advertising
73% of European bloggers are male
48% of European bloggers are between the ages of 18-34
31% of European bloggers are single
53% of European bloggers have full-time jobs
67% of European bloggers are college graduates
50% of European blogs have advertising
73% of Asian bloggers are male
73% of Asian bloggers are between the ages of 18-34
57% of Asian bloggers are single
45% of Asian bloggers have full-time jobs
69% of Asian bloggers are college graduates
60% of Asian blogs have advertising
More than 120k blogs are added to blogosphere each day. That’s about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day.
Technorati has been tracking 3000-7000 spam blogs each day
On an average, Technorati tracks 1.4 million posts per day, that’s around 15 posts per second
Out of the top 100 sites, only 22 are tracked by Technorati
In terms of blog posts by language, Japanese is at the top spot with 37% followed closely by English at 36%

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