Internet, Mobile and Social Media Stats and Facts
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Facebook cited as a problem in 1/3 of UK divorces
Source: Divorce Online (via Mashable)
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Google activates 3.7 million Android devices on Christmas weekend
Source: Google (via Mashable)
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What happens every 60 seconds on the web
Source: Socialnomics
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Google+ now up to 62 million users
Source: Paul Allen (via Mashable)
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700,000 Android devices are activated every day
Source: Google (via Mashable)
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75% of worldwide cellphone users send text messages
Source: Pew Research (via Mashable)
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Ebook sales are expected to generate $9.7 billion worldwide in 2016
Source: Juniper Research (via Mashable)
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Americans viewed more than 42 billion videos online in October
Source: ComScore
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11% of US population own tablets
Source: Pew Research Centre
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Google+ Users have posted 3.4 billion posts
Source: Mashable
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There are 6 million Android Tables
Source: All Things D
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Angry Birds has 30 million active daily users
Source: Mashable
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Twitter has 100 million active users
Source: Mashable
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Google Chrome has at least 13% market share
Source: eWeek
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Google+ has 40 million users
Source: Google
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iPads now generate more traffic than iPhones
Source: Comscore
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Google+ traffic fell by 60% after public launch highs
Source: Chitika
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2 out of 3 smartphones sold are Android or iPhones
Source: Mashable
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Apple has sold more than 250 million iOS devices
Source: Mashable
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Google+ Traffic Jumped 13x after opening to public
Source: Experian Hitwise
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










