Facts about Social Media

• 96% of Gen Y have joined social networks

• Years to reach 50 million users:
  • 38 - Radio
  • 13 - TV
  • 4 - Internet
  • 3 - iPod
  • Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months. As of June 2011 Facebook has 750 Million users.

• If Facebook were a country, it would be the 3rd largest (#1 China, #2 India)

• 50% of active users log on to Facebook daily

• Twitter gets 3 billion requests a day

• 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations