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 * Facebook
 * The average Facebooker user has 130 friends
 * more than 25 billion pieces of contents is shared each month
 * including weblinks, bews stories, blog posts, notes, albums, etc.
 * over 300 thousand users helped translate the site through the translations application
 * More than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month
 * 2/3 comScore's U.S. top 100 websites integrated with facebook
 * 1/2 Golbal top 100 websites have integrated with facebook
 * there are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through out their mobile devices
 * The average Facebook user is connected to 60 pages, groups, and events
 * people spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook
 * There are more than 1 million entrepreneurs and developers from 180 countries on Facebook


 * Twitter
 * Twitter gets more than 300 thousand new users everyday
 * there are currently 110 million users of twitter's services
 * Twitter receives 180 million unique visits each month
 * there are more than 600 million searhes on Twitter every day
 * Twitter start as a simple sms - text service
 * over 60 percent of twitter user is not in US
 * there are more than 50 thousand third-party apps for twitter
 * Twitter has donated access to all of it's tweets to the Library of Congess for research and preservation
 * More than a third of users access Twitter via their mobile phone


 * LinkedIn
 * LinkedIn is the older than Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
 * Created on May 5 of 2003
 * more than 70 million users worldwide
 * Members of LinkedIn come from more than 200 countries from every continent
 * 80 percent of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool
 * A new member joins LinkedIn every senond
 * Executives receives almost 12 million unique visitors per day
 * Executive from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn
 * Recruiters account for 1 in 20 LinkedIn Profiles


 * YouTube
 * The first video was uploaded on 23 April of 2005
 * By Jun 2006, more than 65 thousand videos were being uploaded every day
 * YouTube receives more than 2 billion viewers per day
 * Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube
 * U.S. accounts for 70 percent of YouTube users
 * Over half of YouTube users are under the age of 20
 * You would need to live for around 1000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube
 * YouTube is availabe in 19 countries
 * Music videos accounts for 20 percent of uploaders
 * YouTube uses the same amount of Band Width as the entire internet used in 2000


 * Blogging
 * 77 percent of internet users read blogs
 * Currently there are 133 million blogs listed on leading blog directory Technorati
 * 60 percent of bloggers are between the age of 18 and 44
 * 1/5 bloggers spend 10 hours a week blogging
 * More than half of all bloggers are married and / or parents
 * More than 50 percent of bloggers have more than 1 blog
 * Bloggers use an aver of five different social networks to drive traffie to their blog