>From our buddy Matthew Jeffery at Electronic Arts some data:

The explosive growth of Social Media

Take a look at www.insideea.com and the story ‘The explosive growth of social media…..statistics that shock’!.

FACEBOOK

– Second largest website on the web
– 400 million active global users
– 50% of active users log into the site each day. This equates to at least 175m users every 24 hours.
– More than 35m Facebook users update their status each day.

YOUTUBE

– Third largest Site on the Internet
– Largest video site on the web
– 1 billion views per day (that’s 11,574 per second, 694,444 per minute, or 41,666,667 per hours)
– 10 billion videos uploaded per month
– More than 200 million minutes of video (or 34, 560 hours), is now uploaded onto YouTube per day

LINKEDIN

– LinkedIn has over 64 million members worldwide.

TWITTER

– Twitter now has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis. It’s still a fair increase from the estimated 6-10m global users from a few months ago.
– Towards the end of last year, the average number of tweets per day was over 27.3 million.
– The average number of tweets per hour was around 1.3 million.