Social Media Perspective

Returning to familiar ground, previously seen in Munckin-Factory's initial post; Social Media For Social Good, here are a few interesting facts to dip in to your coffee this bright yet very cloudy Monday Morning.

Firstly the official definition of 'social media' is "an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio" - Wikipedia.

In other words, it's a way to describe the billions of conversation that people are having online every day.

The Facts*

• 13 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
• 100,000,000 YouTube videos viewed every day
• 13,000,000 - the number of articles on Wikipedia
• 3,600,000,000 photos archives on Flickr.com as of June 2009. Roughly one photo per every two people on the planet!
• 3,000,000 Tweets per day on Twitter
• 1382% - the monthly growth rate of Twitter users from Jan-Feb 2009
• If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world - just ahead of Japan.

*Facts acquired via a Design Week supplement.