The Infographics Show - Social Media

 

Motion Graphics by Andrej Preston (http://www.andrejpreston.com)
Narration by Dorian Douglass (http://www.doriandouglass.com)

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Script:

Social Media

62% of adults worldwide now use social media. An average internet user spends 16 hours online a month, while an average American spends 32 hours online.

79% of USA population is online (244 million), which puts it in 5th place. Countries with a higher procentage are Japan 80% (102 million), France 80% (52 million), Germany (82%) and United Kingdom 85% (53 million).
456 people online make China the country with the most people online (only 34% of population)

Facebook is the biggest social network and it now has over 900 Million users worldwide.

43% of its users are male and 57% female.

Average users will spent 20 minutes on facebook, per visit, they will like 2.7 billion pages a day, and upload 250 million photos.

An average Facebook user has 130 friends and likes 80 pages. Brazil has the highest number of online friends, with an average of 481 per user and Japan the lowest, with an average of just 29 per user.

Twitter is the world?s second largest social network, which has over 140 million active users who tweet 340 million times a day.

An average Twitter user has 126 followers. 40% of Twitter users do not tweet anything. 0.05% of total twitter population attracts almost 50% of all the users. 25% of all Twitter users have no followers. 8% of Americans use Twitter.

On Aug. 28, 2011 Beyonce?s pregnancy news at MTV?s VMAs birthed a new Twitter record at 8,867 Tweets per second. This record has since been beaten 4 times. The record holder currently is a showing of a 25-year-old anime movie Castle in the Sky in Japan; when viewers joined forces, sending tweets at the same time to symbolically help the movie?s characters cast a spell. They sent 25,088 tweets in one second.

Pinterest is the third most popular social network in the US.

20% of facebook users are on Pinterest daily. Average time spent on piterest is 14.2 minutes. Buyers referred from Pinterest are 10% more likely to buy something and spend an average of 10% more than visitors from other social networks. 60% of pinterest users are female andmore than 77% of them are over the age of 25.

YouTube is the world?s largest video network. It has over 800 million unique visitors each month. In 2011 YouTube had more than 1 trillion views or around 140 views for every person on earth.
While you have watched this video over 150 hours of other videos have been uploaded to YouTube.

Sources:
http://infographiclabs.com/infographic/facebook-2012/
http://thesocialskinny.com/99-new-social-media-stats-for-2012/
http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/social-media-statistics-stats-2012-infographic/
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/stats-on-facebook-2012-infographic/40301/
http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/17/facebook-engagement/
http://mashable.com/2011/10/26/time-facebook-posts/
http://mashable.com/2012/02/06/tweets-per-second-records-twitter/#470971-Cast...
http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics/
http://www.reelseo.com/youtube-statistics-growth-2012/