Social Facts of Life

Published August 20, 2012By Erik Foss

The Latest Figures from the Social Media and Network Behemoths:

1 billion monthly active users at the end of October 2012.
Approximately 81% of our monthly active users are outside the U.S. and Canada.
584 million daily active users on average in September 2012.
604 million monthly active users who used Facebook mobile products as of September 30, 2012.

Twitter Statistics From 2012 (As of Dec 2012; source)

There were 175 million tweets sent from Twitter every day throughout 2012. (source: Infographics Labs)
56% of customer tweets to companies are being ignored. (sources: AllTwitter)Top 3 countries on Twitter are the USA at 107 million,
Brazil 33 million and Japan at nearly 30 million. (source: Jeff Bullas)
The average user follows (or is followed by) 51 people. (source: Diego Basch’s Blog)
32% of all Internet users are using Twitter. (source: Marketing Land)69% of follows on Twitter are suggested by friends. (source: Web Analytics World)
In 2012, 1 million accounts have been added to Twitter everyday. (source: Infographics Labs)
50% of Twitter users are using the social network via mobile. (source: Microsoft tag)
34% of marketers have generated leads using Twitter. (source: Digital Buzz Blog)
26% of retweets are incited by a request to retweet. (source: Web Analytics World)