Facts about social media

Actually we know that if you are not using Social Networks,  you are not in the new age of making business, ¿why is  so important being in Facebook?, ¿Why people loves reading news on Twitter?,  ¿Why Having a Crurriculum in LinkedIn Can Help us so much? ¿How commercial Videos on youtube can increase my bussines?, don't cry any more, here is my personal opinion, about the facts of Being in Social Media written  by Yahoo, so let's take  a look to the perspective of one of the most important specialist in this area.

Facts About Facebook

Facebook continues to grow and work out how to make money from its ads and mobile users.

• Daily active users have reached 665 million
• Monthly active users have passed 1.1 billion for the first time
• 751 million mobile users access Facebook every month
• Mobile only active users total 189 million
• Mobile now generates 30% of its ad revenue up from 23% at the end of 2012

Facts About Twitter

Twitter is the fastest growing social network in the world by active users according to a Global Web Index Study.

So how does that translate to hard numbers?

• 44% growth from June 2012 to March 2013
• 288 million monthly active users
• That means that 21% of the world’s internet population are using Twitter every month
• Over 500 million registered accounts
• Twitter’s fastest growing age demographic is 55 to 64 year olds, registering an increase in active users of 79%.

Facts About Youtube
When you wanted to watch a video it used to be VCR, then it became a DVD player, then we moved onto cable networks and now it is YouTube.

These numbers from YouTube’s own blog put some perspective on it penetration into our culture and time.

• 1 billion unique monthly visitors
• 6 billion hours of videos are watched every month
• This means that 50% more hours of video are watched in March 2013 compared to last August when it was 4 billion hours a month and last May when it was 3 billion.
• YouTube reaches more U.S. adults ages 18-34 than any cable network

Facts About Google+

Google+ is making an impact on the social media universe and is now the second largest social network.

What are some of the numbers on Google’s social network built to protect it from Facebook’s growth and data capture to ensure it remains relevant?

It is Google’s social layer that enhances it’s other online assets.

• 359 million monthly active users according to a Global Web Index study
• Its active users base grew by 33% from June 2012 through to March 2013

Facts About LinkedIn

The largest professional business network on the planet continues to grow but not at the pace of Twitter or Google+

Here are some numbers from Visual.ly.

• Over 200 million users
• 2 new users join it every second
• 64% of users are outside the USA

So what numbers surprise you?