2010 was a big year for Social Media in many ways, we have seen services like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin grow rapidly over the past 12 months, we also started to see more SME business’s introduce social media marketing in to their online strategy. Many people thought that social media was a fad and would simply disappear, however after seeing many large enterprise organisation such as Dell, Starbucks, and Ford implement very successful social media campaigns many smaller company’s are now using social media to create an online presence and engage with new and existing customers on various social platforms. Here is a few mind blowing statistics that indicate that social media is here to stay and isn’t going away anytime soon
2010 – Twitter had 75 million user accounts
2011 – Twitter now claims to have 175 registered users, Twitter has also recently announced that its adding 15 million new users per month.
2010 – Linkedin seen steady growth with 50 million users, 20 million of these users being in the EU.
2011 – Linkedin announced that will going public and most recently announced that it now has 100 million active users globally.
2010 – Facebook had 350 million active users worldwide
2011 – Facebook has seen amazing growth in the past 12 months with now over 640 million users, 50% of active users logging in each day and 65 million users accessing the site through a mobile device. The site has now overtaken Google as the no 1 site visited on the web globally!
