social networking facts

 I pulled together a list of facts about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and a whole slew of other social media platforms.

I thought you might find the data and information helpful, perhaps in a blog post, SlideShare deck or speech of your own. With that in mind, what follows are 50 interesting facts about social media that might surprise you.

• In the three minutes it takes you to read this blog post, 300 hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube. 
• 44 percent of users on Twitter have never sent a tweet.
• Facebook owns a massive number of anti-Facebook domains, including IHateTheFacebookLikeButton.com. 
• 74% of online adults use social networking sites.

• If Wikipedia were a book it would be more than two billion pages.
• LinkedIn has a lower percentage of active users than Pinterest, Google+, Twitter and Facebook. 
• People are spending 1 out of every 7 minutes on Facebook when online. 
• 80% of all Pinterest pins are actually repins.
• The average user of a social networking site has more close ties and is half as likely to be socially isolated as the average American.
• It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users; Facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year. 
• 74% of consumers rely on social media to influence their purchasing decisions

• If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world.
• Facebook users typically are spending 10.5 billion minutes (almost 20,000 years) on the social network. And, that’s excluding mobile devices. 
• Every minute, Tumblr owners publish approximately 27,778 new blog posts.
• Mothers with children under the age of 5 are the most active on social media
• 1 in 5 new couples met online.
• There are 1 billion “likes” daily on Instagram.
• 71% of consumers that receive a quick brand response on social media are likely to recommend that brand to others. 
• Social media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the web.
• In the first 24 hours after launching its video-sharing capabilities, Instagram users uploaded 5 million videos. 
• The majority of people in one survey said they don’t believe Facebook ads are trustworthy. 
• 189 million Facebook’s users are ‘mobile only.’
• Every second, 2 new members join LinkedIn.
• YouTube has more than a billion unique users per month which equates to nearly half of all internet users. 
• 53% of millennials would rather lose their sense of smell than their technology. 
• Facebook users watch more than 500 years’ worth of YouTube video every day. 
• 97% of all consumers search for local businesses online.
• There are over 10 million Facebook apps.
• Food is the top category on Pinterest, making up 57% of discussions.
• 500 new Facebook accounts are added every minute. 
• LinkedIn has over 3 million company pages with over 1 billion endorsements
• Emails with social sharing buttons increase click-through rates by 158%.
• 50,000 links are shared every minute on Facebook.

• The “like” button is clicked 3,125,000 times every minute on Facebook
• 1 in 5 divorces involve social media
• Twitter handles more search queries per month than Bing and Yahoo combined.
• There are 684,478 pieces of content shared on Facebook, 3,600 new photos on Instagram; and 2,083 check-ins on Foursquare during every minute of every day.
• As of June 2014, Facebook drove 23.39% of internet traffic.
• 90% of consumers trust peer recommendations; only 14% trust advertisements.
• Social media accounts for more than one in every four minute.
• People are spending 1 out of every 7 minutes on Facebook when online. Facebook users typically are spending 10.5 billion minutes (almost 20,000 years) on the social network. And, that’s excluding mobile devices. 
• Each minute, 243,055.5 photos are uploaded to Facebook
• YouTube has over 1 billion unique visitors per month.
• Each minute, 150,000 messages are sent on Facebook.
• 43% of online adults over the age of 65 use social networking sites.
• “Selfie” is now a word in Webster
• Users send out 58 million tweets per day, with 9,100 happening every second. However, there are 222 million Twitters who just watch other people’s tweets.
• 93% of shopper’s buying decisions are influenced by social media.
• 93% of marketers use social media for business; only 9% of marketing companies have full time bloggers.