Social Web statistics that prove we’re in the RIGHT business
Ryan January 12, 2009
Very important statistics from in Web Trends and News
Blogosphere stats
133,000,000 - number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002
346,000,000 - number of people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008)
900,000 - average number of blog posts in a 24 hour period
1,750,000 - number of RSS subscribers to TechCrunch, the most popular Technology blog (January 2009)
77% - percentage of active Internet users who read blogs
55% - percentage of the blogosphere that drinks more than 2 cups of coffee per day (source)
81 - number of languages represented in the blogosphere
59% - percentage of bloggers who have been blogging for at least 2 years
Twitter stats
1,111,991,000 - number of Tweets to date (see an up to the minute count here)
3,000,000 - number of Tweets/day(March 2008) (from TechCrunch)
165,414 - number of followers of the most popular Twitter user (@BarackObama) - but he’s not active
86,078 - number of followers of the most active Twitter user (@kevinrose)
63% - percentage of Twitter users that are male (from Time)
Facebook stats
150,000,000 - number of active users
170 - number of countries/territories that use Facebook
35 - number of different languages used on Facebook
2,600,000,000 - number of minutes global users in aggregate spend on Facebook daily
100 - number of friends the average user has
700,000,000 - number of photos added to Facebook monthly
52,000 - number of applications currently available on Facebook
140 - number of new applications added per day
January 14th, 2009 at 12:48 am
awesome statistics, this is the meat that we can take to those who still don't see the validity of joining the rest of us online!
January 14th, 2009 at 7:23 am
It's also the seller for those who don't think creating conversations and
communities online isn't valuable…very reaffirming.
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May 29th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Was a good read. I'll be back for more.
May 31st, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Woah! These statistics surprised me. I never knew that the number of new applications added in Facebook everyday exceeds a hundred. Now I know better. Thanks for sharing!
June 6th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Good read. I have made a twitter post about this. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.
June 11th, 2009 at 6:59 am
Overwhelming stats! Those facts surprised me, especially about the number of active users in Facebook. Never knew that the count exceeds a whopping 150,000,000. Wow!
June 12th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Amazing statistics for these 3 websites i can't believe this.
Looking for the stats i think twitter will over take blogosphere in another one year of time. Beacuse twitter is very rapidly developing social media as well as social networking website.
June 13th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Eye-popping stats! Thanks for taking the extra time and effort to bring it to our attention!