Social Media Stats TalentHQ.com

Conference season is in full swing. I am looking forward to a session I am co-facilitating tomorrow called “Social Media – The Impact to Diversity Recruiting”. It’s at the 2011 Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity, in Minneapolis.

In building out the content and research for the topic, a lot of information has been published from a variety of sources related to social media – and recent stats.

Whether you are a self proclaimed “guru”, a user, a junkie, are building a business case, or are just interested… take a seat for some of the latest stats related to social media.

YouTube stats:

2 billion videos viewed, every day
24 hours of video uploaded, every minute
More video is uploaded in 60 days than all 3 major US networks created in 60 years
46 years of videos watched a day, on facebook via YouTube
YouTube’s auto speech recognition tech translates video and captions into 51 languages

Facebook Stats:

#1 Most visited web site
500+ Million active members
700+ Billion minutes are spent on facebook, every month
20+ Million apps installed daily
900+ Million objects people interact with
200+ Million access via a mobile device
Average user generates 90 pieces of content every month
250+ Million people engage with facebook on external sites

LinkedIn stats:

100 Million+ members
1 Million new members every week
17.8 Million belong to groups
1.2 million comments and posts to groups each week
2 billion people searches annually
1 million companies have a company page

Twitter Stats:

200+ Million users
40+ Billion tweets
140 Million tweets a day
300,000+ apps
1,000+% growth
400 employees
500,000 accounts added, daily

Google Stats:

1+ Billion searches daily
20% of searches are for local information
Google maps guided users 12 billion miles in 2010
300 Million+ “Job” related searches every month

Mobile Stats:

5.3 Billion subscribers
6.1 Trillion SMS messages sent in 2010
10.9 Billion apps downloaded
By 2013 mobile will overtake PC’s as the most common web access device

You can also view these statistics, which have been uploaded to SlideShare:

Social media stats 2011

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The slides from the presentation on diversity will be posted tomorrow. Until then, text, search, watch, friend, like, link, share, and tweet away.

Judy Reynolds says:

March 23, 2011 at 5:06 pm

Jason, Your website and these stats are AWESOME! Your information ROCKS!
Keep up the great job Jason. I love sharing your information. You make me look good (tehehehehehe).

Jason Buss says:

March 23, 2011 at 5:52 pm

Thanks Judy! You are too kind! I enjoy what I do, and I’m glad you find the content valuable.

michael marlatt says:

March 23, 2011 at 8:20 pm

Really like the new & improved site.

Re: the above post, great stats and info re: social media!

Here are a couple of additional factoids you (and your readers) may find interesting:

1. Facebook is absolutely becoming a major player in the mobile social space. Per their latest stats: “There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.” Source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

2. Mobile usage in the U.S. is definitely picking up. We’re no longer the “laggards” in mobile the way we once were. As of 12/2010, we finally achieved 302M mobile subscriptions in the U.S. -> Source: http://www.ctia.org/advocacy/research/index.cfm/aid/10323

Looking forward to checking out your presentation when it’s available.