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Gwendolyn Regina T · · 1 min read

Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think

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.

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Gwendolyn Regina T

Solve problems, make art, think deeply, because life is an adventure. Gwendolyn speaks 3.25 languages, loves physics, travelling, dance and adventure sports.