ComScore Media Metrix’s year-end report found that women’s community was the most visited and fastest growing Internet category, tied with politics. The number of unique visits to women’s community sites jumped 35% to almost 70 million from 52 million. This is quite an achievement considering the US Presidential race.
In September 2008, InsideFacebook published a new survey that shows that women outnumber men on Facebook in every age group.
Among all the women who use social media, about 66.4% say they use Facebook, followed by MySpace at 16.3%, Twitter at 3.1%, and LinkedIn at 1.4%.
Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more followers on Twitter than Ireland, Norway, and Panama have people living within their borders – Twitter & World Population Data
In mid-July 2009, Anderson Analytics published the results of an interesting survey of 5000 users in the United States, finding that MySpace had the youngest average user age (29 yrs old), while LinkedIn’s audience is the oldest (36 yrs old). Facebook users have on average 34 years old while the average age on Twitter is 33.
Facebook currently has a population that would make it the 4th largest country in the world – Facebook statistics
Guitar Hero took 40% of their budget that was used for TV and it moved to the Internet.
“A year ago, the largest component of Face book was actually people who are below 24-years-old. Now the largest component is 35 to 49,” – Magid Abraham of comScore
Social Networking has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Internet – Huffington Post
“There are 300 million Facebook users today, 2.7 million articles in Wikipedia, 130 million blogs out there and 3 million tweets are sent per day.” – Fred Briggs, Verizon Business
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