Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think
September 7, 2009 by Gwendolyn Regina T
A video created by Socialnomics with data culled from various web sources that argues that social media is not just a fad.
Some stats I picked out:
- If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia
- 80% of companies are using LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees
- 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices
- The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
- If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour
- Facebook USERS translated the site from English to Spanish via a Wiki in less than 4 weeks and cost Facebook $0 [apart from spending resources on developing the system, of course]
- We no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
- More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook…daily.
About The Author
Gwendolyn Regina T - Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Apart from SGE, Gwen is also a Partner at Thymos Capital, where she focuses on early stage investments in technology firms. She has had two exits out of her investments via the firm, one of which is iHipo. A frequent judge for business competitions both locally and overseas, she graduated from the National University of Singapore. Gwen also spent some time in Silicon Valley and studied in Stanford University under the NUS Overseas College programme. Gwen is a mentor at Spanish incubator Tetuan Valley, Polish incubator Gamma Rebels, the Singapore Ambassador for the Sandbox network and the Singapore curator for StartupDigest. She enjoys languages, travelling, dance and adventure sports. Gwen can be found on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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