When I started this blog back on September 25, 2009 my first post was a simple “welcome” message with a YouTube video clip produced by Erik Qualman author of the blog called Socialnomics. Interestingly enough, YouTube subsequently removed that video for copyright issues. The video was titled Social Media Revolution, and it was a series of very interesting facts and stats that demonstrated the massive change social media is making on our lives. A good introduction to the reason I started this blog.
Well Mr. Qualman is back at it again with his latest creation, Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh). In this latest creation Qualman has included some pretty interesting and powerful social media stats, such as;
• Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old
• 96% of them have joined a social network
• Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S.
• Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
• Facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year
• iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
• If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest ahead of the United States and only behind China and India
• Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres (combined) have more Twitter followers than the populations of Ireland, Norway, or Panama.
• 50% of the mobile Internet traffic in the UK is for Facebook.
• Kindle eBooks Outsold Paper Books on Christmas
• 60 millions status updates happen on Facebook daily
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