Internet, Mobile and Social Media Stats and Facts

• Facebook cited as a problem in 1/3 of UK divorces

  Source: Divorce Online (via Mashable)

  Date: 2012-01-03 Behaviour, Facebook, Social Media, Users

• Google activates 3.7 million Android devices on Christmas weekend

  Source: Google (via Mashable)

  Date: 2011-12-29 Android, Companies, Google, Users, Volumes

• What happens every 60 seconds on the web

  Source: Socialnomics

  Date: 2011-12-28 Infographics, Internet

• Google+ now up to 62 million users

  Source: Paul Allen (via Mashable)

  Date: 2011-12-27 Google+, Users, Volumes

• 700,000 Android devices are activated every day

  Source: Google (via Mashable)

  Date: 2011-12-21 Android, Mobile, Users

• 75% of worldwide cellphone users send text messages

  Source: Pew Research (via Mashable)

  Date: 21 December 2011 Behaviour, Mobile, Users

• Ebook sales are expected to generate $9.7 billion worldwide in 2016

  Source: Juniper Research (via Mashable)

  Date: 01 December 2011 eBooks, Publishing

• Americans viewed more than 42 billion videos online in October

  Source: ComScore

  Date: 28 November 2011 Video

• 11% of US population own tablets

  Source: Pew Research Centre

  Date: 25 October 2011 Mobile, Tablets

• Google+ Users have posted 3.4 billion posts

  Source: Mashable

  Date: 19 October 2011 Google+, Social Media

• There are 6 million Android Tables

  Source: All Things D

  Date: 19 October 2011 Android, Tablets

• Angry Birds has 30 million active daily users

  Source: Mashable

  Date: 18 October 2011 Gaming

• Twitter has 100 million active users

  Source: Mashable

  Date: 18 October 2011 Twitter, Users, Volumes

• Google Chrome has at least 13% market share

  Source: eWeek

  Date: 03 July 2011 Browsers, Chrome

• Google+ has 40 million users

  Source: Google

  Date: 13 October 2011 Google, Google+, Social Media, Users, Volumes

• iPads now generate more traffic than iPhones

  Source: Comscore

  Date: 10 October 2011 iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Tablets

• Google+ traffic fell by 60% after public launch highs

  Source: Chitika

  Date: 07 October 2011 Google, Google+, Social Media, Users, Volumes

• 2 out of 3 smartphones sold are Android or iPhones

  Source: Mashable

  Date: 06 October 2011 Android, iPhone, Mobile

• Apple has sold more than 250 million iOS devices

  Source: Mashable

  Date: 04 October 2011 Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Tablets

• Google+ Traffic Jumped 13x after opening to public

  Source: Experian Hitwise

  Date: 26 September 2011 Google, Google+, Users, Volumes

There’s a whole world of stats and facts about social media out in the world.

At some point I hope to have some training material I can use in courses, and as a part of that I hope to have some figures I can use to say to people running organisations why this stuff is important.

So while I’m working on the material, I thought it would be useful to track some of the amazing facts and figures about Internet, Social Media and Mobile usage.

At some point I hope to organise these properly, but for now they’re a not-massively helpful list.  Links to sources are included where possible.

• 26/8/2011 – Stats on Form Completion from mobile devices
• 3/8/2011 – Instagram celebrates 150 million photos
• 3/8/2011 – Google+ 25 million visitors – and they’re staying longer (a few days earlier there were less visitors and staying shorter)
• 3/8/2011 – Android has more than 50% of smartphone market (though, a few days earlier it was only 39%)
• 1/8/2011 – Chrome overtakes Firefox to become 2nd most popular browser
• 1/8/2011 – Five mobile trends – 59% of people visit a local store after searching it on the mobile web, mobile search has grown 4 times in the past year!
• 31/7/2011 – Text messaging stats: the most popular way to send messages
• 29/7/2011 – Online Charitable Giving Infographic
• 27/7/2011 – Fifteen incredible mobile statistics – 27% of phones (1.08 billion) are now smartphones, half of searches are now done via mobile, etc.
• 26/7/2011 – 50% of People (PC Mag survey completers!) will leave Facebook for Google+
• June 2011 – What happens on the internet in 60 seconds – love the ironic nod to Yahoo “The Worlds Largest Community Created Content”
• 24/7/2011 – Apple sells 9 million iPads and 20 million iPhones in a quarter!
• 22/7/2011 – Google+ hits 20 million visitors, gender ration begins to even – note, “visitors”, not “users”
• 21/7/2011 – Facebook vs Google+ Infographic
• 21/7/2011 – Mac OSX Lion downloaded 1 million times in 24 hours – and selling faster than any previous version of the OS
• 20/7/2011 – Google+: The numbers driving its growth – some early stats from the new social media tool
• 20/7/2011 – Google+ Approaches 18 million users – but growth rate slowing
• 16/7/2011 – Infographic: Twitter’s growth – now has 200 million users and delivers 350 billion tweets per day!
• 15/7/2011 – Google+ Users share 1 billion items per day (+1 button is hit 2.3 billion times per day. 550,000 Android phones are activated every day – 160 million people use Google’s Chrome browser)
• 13/7/2011 – 1 in 10 UK pets has a Facebook page!
• 12/7/2011 – One million Twitter Apps have been registered
• 12/7/2011 – WordPress powers more than 50 million websites
• 7/7/2011 – The Fold Exists, But Does It Matter – stats about “The Fold”
• 7/7/2011 – Apple App Store has had 15 billion downloads
• 7/7/2011 – Games dominate mobile app usage
• 7/7/2011 – Facebook hits 750 million users
• 7/7/2011 – Four Square has 10 million users and 500,000 merchant accounts
• 5/7/2011 – iPads Generate 1% of the worlds web traffic
• 4/7/2011 – The US Vice President is on Twitter
• 1/7/2011 – There are 100,000 apps for the iPad
• 30/6/2011 – There are more than 200 million Tweets every day on Twitter
• 28/6/2011 – 500,000 Android devices are activated every day
• 28/6/2011 – The Social Media revolution in facts and figures, including:
  • If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s third largest
  • One in five divorces are blamed on Facebook
  • 69% of parents are friends with their children on social media
• 28/6/2011 – Humans will create 1.8 zettabytes of data this year, and the number doubles each year
  • That’s the equivalent of 200 billion, 120-minute HD movies
• 23/6/2011 – How the world uses social media – (Global usage infographic)
• 22/6/2011 – How students use social media (Infographic)
• 21/6/2011 – One fifth of grandparents use social networking
• 20/6/2011 – Consumers now spend more time on apps than on the web
• 19/6/2011 – How big is the web and how fast is it growing – some stats on domain registrations
• 14/6/2011 – Instagram has 5 million users and 100 million photos
• 13/6/2011 – Facebook’s growth is slowing
• 13/6/2011 – Facebook will hit 700 million users in July but…is everyone on it now?
• 31/12/2011 – What happens every 20 minutes on Facebook