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November 21, 2010 · Filed Under Interesting tidbits, Internet, Society, Technology

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Are you in the right business?

“In today’s economy, the smartest entrepreneurs are satisfying needs, not wants” Leigh Buchanan

November 19, 2010 · Filed Under Power Phrases, Persuasion, Quotes

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Fascinating Social Media Facts of the Year 2010

Fascinating Social Media Facts of Year 2010 | Social Media Today

2. In terms of the impact of social networks on advertising, word of mouth is the popular option with 78% of customers trust peer recommendations on sites. While, only 14% trust advertisements.

5. An average user becomes a fan of 2 pages every month.

7. 25% of search results for the world’s top 20 brands are linked to user-generated content.

11. * In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, on an average, users log in twice a day to social networking sites and 9 times a month on professional websites.

13. * In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, people have about 195 friends on an average.

16. An average Facebook user spends about 55 minutes a day on the site.

21. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events

22. Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month

26. **Over 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month.

27. **Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites are integrated with Facebook.

29. The most popular YouTube video – Justin Bieber, Baby ft. Ludacris has had over 374,403,983 views

30. ** YouTube receives over 2 billion viewers each day.

31. ** 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube by users every minute.

32. ** 70% of YouTube users are from the United States.

33. ** More than half of YouTube’s users are under the age of 20.

37. There are over 181 million blogs.

38. 34% of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.

41. ** Two thirds of bloggers are male.

46. 54% of bloggers post content or tweet on a daily basis.

47. 80% of Twitter users use Twitter on mobile devices.

50. **There are over 110 million users of Twitter currently.

53. Of the 60 million users of LinkedIn half of them are from outside US.

55. 80% companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool.

56. **Every second a new member joins LinkedIn.

62. **69% of users edit Wikipedia to fix errors.

63. **73% of Wikipedia users edit Wikipedia because they want to share knowledge.