The Growth of Social Media in 2014: 40+ Surprising Stats [Infographic]
This content provides an infographic with social media facts and statistics, including the percentage of internet users on social media and user counts for various platforms.
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Search Engine Journal has pulled together an exhaustive list of social-media facts and stats that we all should know in this infographic. See below for a roundup of the best tweetable stats from this infographic and around the web!
Here are some highlights from the infographic:
- 72% of
all
internet users are now active on social media - 89% of 18-29-year-old internet users are active on social media
- 93% of marketers use social media for business
- 70% of brands have a presence on Google+, up 4% from Q4 of 2012
- Twitter is the fastest growing social network, up 44% between June 2012 and March 2013
- Google+ grew 33% during the same period
- Facebook has 1.15 billion monthly active users
And while we're rounding up statistics, we have a few more to toss your way:
- Google sites handle about 100 billion searches each month (
SEL
) - YouTube hosts nearly 14 billion videos (
comScore
) - Facebook is now over 1.1 billion users (
Facebook
) - Google+ has over 500 million users (
Google
) - Twitter has over 550 million accounts (
Statistics Brain
) - LinkedIn is at 225 million users (
LinkedIn
) - Pinterest has more than 70 million users (
The Next Web
)
