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  • As of March 2013, YouTube has more than a billion unique users per month.
  • YouTube users watch more than 4 billion hours of video on the site each month.
  • Every minute of the day, e-mail users send approximately 204,166,677 messages.
  • Google receives over 2 million search queries every minute of the day.
  • Facebook users share approximately 684,478 pieces of content every minute.
  • Consumers spend around $272,070 on shopping on the Internet every minute.
  • Twitter users send over 100,000 tweets every minute.
  • Approximately 47,000 apps are downloaded from Apple every minute.
  • Brands and organizations on Facebook receive approximately 34,722 "likes" every minute.
  • Every minute, Tumblr owners publish approximately 27,778 new blog posts.
  • Instagram users share around 3,600 new photos every minute.
  • Flickr users add approximately 3,125 new photos every minute.
  • There are approximately 2,083 check-ins on Foursquare every minute.
  • Every minute of the day, approximately 571 new websites are created.
  • WordPress users publish approximately 347 new blog posts every minute.
  • The mobile Web receives approximately 217 new users every minute.
  • 25 percent of Facebook users do not bother with any kind of privacy control.
  • 750 tweets per second are shared on Twitter.
  • If Twitter was a country, it would have the 12th largest population in the world.
  • Twitter handles more search queries per month than Bing and Yahoo combined.
  • The average visitor spends 15 minutes per day on YouTube.
  • 3 million new blogs come online every month.
  • 25 percent of Instagram users upload more than three pictures.
  • More than 5 million images are uploaded to Instagram every day.
  • There are 575 likes per second on Instagram.
  • The Google +1 button is used more than 5 billion times per day.
  • Google+ adds approximately 625,000 new users every day.
  • 42 percent of phones in the United States are smartphones.
  • Tablets took just two years to reach 40 million users in the United States. It took smartphones seven years to reach this figure.
  • Social gamers are expected to buy $6 billion in virtual goods in 2012.
  • One in five couples meet online; three in five gay couples meet online.
  • 56 percent of Americans have a profile on a social networking site.
  • 55 percent of Americans ages 45-54 have a profile on a social networking site.
  • 22 percent of Americans use social networking sites several times per day.
  • 23 percent of Facebook users check their account five or more times every day.
  • 76 percent of Twitter users now post status updates.
  • The first ever Super Bowl Social Media Command Center launched in preparation for Super Bowl XLVI.
  • 82 percent of the world’s online population are determined to be reached by social networking sites, representing 1.2 billion users around the world.
  • The creators of Instagram got the name from a combination of the fact that old Polaroid cameras marketed themselves as "instant" and the fact that they felt snapshots were like telegrams that got sent over the wire to others.
  • The average Photobucket user shares their photos to four different social media platforms.
  • Pinterest hit 10 million U.S. monthly unique visitors faster than any independent site in history.
  • Pinterest drives more referral traffic to websites than YouTube, Google+, and LinkedIn combined.
  • There are approximately 2 million check-ins per week on Foursquare.
  • According to Twitter's calculations, the amount of tweets sent in one day is enough to write a 10 million-page book or 8,163 copies of War and Peace.
  • According to Flurry Analytics, consumers downloaded a total of 242 million apps on December 25, 2011.
  • According to Experian Hitwise, “Facebook” was the most-searched term in 2011, making it the third year in a row that the social networking platform topped the most-searched list.
  • Klout was started when founder Joe Fernandez was recovering from jaw surgery and depended entirely on social media for communication.
  • Klout founder and CEO Joe Fernandez paid $5,000 to the original owner of klout.com for the domain name.
  • In December 2011, one in every five smartphone owners in the U.S. scanned a QR code.
  • Meetup staff are called “MEME-teamers.” MEME is an acronym for “Meetups Everywhere about Most Everything."
  • A meetup takes place every 13 seconds.
  • Google+ was developed under the code name “Emerald Sea.” The code name came from the fact that Google+ presented an opportunity to sail to new horizons or drown in the wave of social media sites.
  • Google+ reached 10 million users in just two weeks, despite the fact that it had not officially been released to the public.
  • HootSuite allows its fans to translate any HootSuite application to the language of their choice. So far, users have started translating 21 different languages, including Korean, Welsh, and Turkish.
  • The name “Tumblr” comes from a variation on blogs that are shorter stream-of-consciousness posts known as “tumblelogs.”
  • TweetDeck holds internal "HackDays" once per month where employees are given free reign to prototype, build, or design anything they want to see in TweetDeck.
  • Twitter.com was originally owned by a birding enthusiast, so the microblogging site was first known as “Twttr.”
  • The first day Twitter was made public there were a total of 224 tweets. In July 2011, the rate of tweets was 224 in under one-tenth of a second.
  • The name Formspring comes from “form” which reflects the act of crafting a question, and “spring” to reveal the response.
  • Social media accounts for one in every six minutes spent online.
  • In January 2011, Formspring added a "smile" button to every post on the site, which acts in a similar manner to the "like" button on Facebook. It disappeared, but then came back as a permanent feature in March 2011.
  • More than 500 tweets every minute contain a YouTube link.
  • Facebook users watch more than 150 years' worth of YouTube video every day.
  • 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend 2011.
  • NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer was the first person to tweet from space.
  • The average Facebook user spends about 55 minutes a day, about 6.50 hours a week, and about 1.20 days a month on the site.
  • Over 300,000 users translate Facebook into over 70 languages using the translation application.
  • There are over 900 million objects including personal pages, groups, events, and community pages that Facebook users can interact with.
  • The average Facebook user creates 90 pieces of content including links, news stories, photo albums, notes, and videos each month.
  • More than 30 billion pieces of content including links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, and videos are shared on Facebook each month.
  • Over 80 percent of comScore's U.S. Top 100 websites and over half of their Global Top 100 websites are integrated with Facebook.
  • 70 percent of YouTube traffic comes from outside the United States.
  • As of 2010, to watch all the videos on YouTube, a person would have to live for approximately 1,000 years.
  • YouTube is available across 25 countries and in 43 languages.
  • There are over 200 million blogs on the Internet.
  • 34 percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.
  • 65 percent of bloggers are between the ages of 18 and 44.
  • Approximately two-thirds of bloggers are male.
  • 15 percent of bloggers spend 10 hours a week blogging.
  • More than half of all bloggers are married, parents, or both.
  • More than half of all bloggers have more than one blog.
  • The 10 billionth tweet was posted on Twitter in March 2010.
  • Approximately 190 million tweets are written each day.
  • More than half of LinkedIn users are from outside the United States.
  • By March 2010, Australia itself had over 1 million LinkedIn users.
  • 73 percent of users edit Wikipedia because they want to share knowledge and 69 percent of users edit Wikipedia to fix errors.
  • 19 percent of Wikipedia editors have a Master's degree and 4.4 percent of Wikipedia editors have a PhD.
  • 13 percent of the editors of Wikipedia entries are women.
  • Bad weather results in more edits of Wikipedia entries.
  • Australia has the highest number of established users of social media, followed by the United States and the United Kingdom.
  • Facebook, Blogspot, and Myspace are the top three websites visited by people under the age of 18.
  • Every NBA and NHL arena is now included as a featured spot on Gowalla.
  • Musician Ben Folds held a concert for his CD Supersunnyspeedgraphic on Second Life. 75 avatars attended and nearly 300 entered the contest to win a "ticket" to the first concert by a live musician on the avatar-based site.
  • There are Meetups on over 90,000 topics.
  • Plaxo is available in 11 different languages including English, Italian, and Pirate.
  • In 2010, American Idol allowed aspiring singers to submit audition videos via Myspace.
  • Myspace held an online casting call for Fox’s hit series Glee.
  • Queen Elizabeth of England approved the creation of both an official Facebook account for the royal family, and a Flickr account featuring more than 600 photos of the family, in 2010. These two accounts join the royal family's Twitter account that was started in 2009 and YouTube account that was started in 2007.
  • Oscar Mayer tracks the locations of its Weinermobiles, the 27-foot-long, hotdog-and-bun-shaped cars, using Brightkite. The cars also have their own RSS feeds.
  • Gowalla is an amalgamation of the words “Go” and “Wallaby,” a small kangaroo-like marsupial that hops from place to place.
  • Vimeo is a play on the word “video”, inserting the word “me” as a reference to the site’s dedication to user-made video, and is also an anagram of the word “movie.”
  • The 100 millionth Myspace account was created on August 9, 2006, in the Netherlands.
  • Evite has been referenced in popular television shows including The Simpsons, Alias, and The Office.
  • The reason the main color on Facebook is blue is because founder Mark Zuckerberg is red-green color blind, meaning the color he can see best is blue.
  • Dennis Crowley, the founder of Foursquare had an earlier site, which failed, called Dodgeball. He said he chose to name both sites after playground games because they are both designed to be fun and playful.
  • It is estimated that in 2007 YouTube uses the same amount of bandwidth as the entire Internet used in 2000.
  • Twitter adds nearly 500,000 new users every day.
  • The average Facebook user has 130 friends and is connected to 80 community pages, groups, and events.
  • Approximately half of the total number of Facebook users log on to Facebook at least once each day.
  • The fastest-growing group of Facebook users is females ages 55-65.
  • At over 5,000 words, Facebook’s privacy policy is longer than the U.S. Constitution.
  • Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage.
  • Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the United States.
  • It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users; Facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year.
  • If Facebook were a country it would have the world’s third largest population.
  • There are more than 1.6 billion searches on Twitter every day.
  • The Library of Congress now archives all tweets for research and preservation.
  • 80 percent of Twitter usage is on mobile devices.
  • Executives from all 2010 Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn.
  • Two new members join LinkedIn every second.
  • Members of LinkedIn come from more than 200 countries and represent every continent.
  • The very first video uploaded to YouTube was called “Me at the Zoo” on April 23, 2005.
  • Approximately 48 hours worth of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute.
  • YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world.
  • 77 percent of Internet users read blogs.
  • Corporate blogging accounts for 14 percent of blogs.
  • One in five bloggers update their blogs daily.
  • Google rents a flock of goats at its headquarters to cut down on weeds and brush.
  • There are 247 billion e-mails sent daily.
  • "Wiki" is the Hawaiian word for "quick."
  • If you were paid $1 for every article posted on Wikipedia you would earn $1,712.32 per hour.
  • 25 percent of search engine results for the world’s top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content.
  • 25 percent of Americans say they have watched a short video on their phone in the past month.
  • eBay was originally called "AuctionWeb."
  • The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.
  • There are seven buildings at eBay’s headquarters and they are all named after eBay.com categories: Collectibles, Jewelry, Motors, Music, Sports, Technology, and Toys.
  • The most expensive eBay purchase was a jet that sold for $4.9 million in 2001.
  • iPod application downloads hit 1 billion in nine months.
  • 80 percent of companies use social media as a recruitment tool. Of those, 95 percent use LinkedIn.
  • According to a 2010 Red Cross Survey, about half of respondents would sign up to receive emergency alerts.
  • A software product called Textecution will disable a phone’s texting and Internet functions when the owner is traveling at 10 mph or above, effectively curbing texting while driving.
  • The first use of SMS (short message service) was allegedly in December 1992 by a 22 year-old engineer who used a computer to send the text message “Merry Christmas.”
  • Podcast comes from a combination of the acronym POD—play on demand—and the word "broadcast."

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