More Random Web 2.0 Statistics

Here are some more random Web 2.0 Statistics I’ve been gathering for some presentations.

• Facebook has more than 400 million active users and 50% of those active users log in every day and 35 million of those users update their status daily. Facebook Press Room.
• By 2050, the population of the United States is estimated to reach 400 million (it reached 300 million in 2006). NYT: A Nation 400 Million Strong.
• Average Facebook user has 130 friends and spends 55 minutes a day on Facebook and becomes a fan of 4 pages each month and is a member of 13 groups. NYT: A Nation 400 Million Strong.
• In January 2010, over 75,000,000 people visited Twitter.com representing 1,100% growth over January 2009. Twitter Statistics: The Full Picture.
• The average Twitter user has 27 followers, down from 42 followers in August 2009. RJMetrics: New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement.
• The monthly rate of new Twitter accounts peaked in July 2009 and is currently around 6.2 million new accounts per month (or 2-3 per second). This is about 20% below July 2009’s peak rate.RJMetrics: New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement.
• A large percentage of Twitter accounts are inactive, with about 25% of accounts having no followers and about 40% of accounts having never sent a single Tweet.RJMetrics: New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement.
• Approximately 80% of all Twitter users have tweeted fewer than ten times. RJMetrics: New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement.
• Yammer is used at over 70,000 businesses worldwide. Yammer Home Page.
• According to YouTube’s fact sheet, every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube, up from “only” 20 hours of video in May 2009. YouTube Fact Sheet.
• YouTube EDU is one of the largest online video repositories of higher education content in the world with over 300 universities and colleges contributing content such as, University of Cambridge, Yale, Stanford, MIT, University of Chicago and The Indian Institutes of Technology. More courses, more colleges: YouTube EDU turns one.
• YouTube EDU includes university courses in seven languages across 10 countries with over 350 full courses. The total video library stands at over 65,000 videos.More courses, more colleges: YouTube EDU turns one.More courses, more colleges: YouTube EDU turns one.
• As shown in the graph below, between 2002 and 2007, LinkedIn has noticed a surge in the percentage of job titles that include the term “ninja”. LinkedIn Observes The Rise of Professional Ninjas!
  

• Among Professional and Self-Employed bloggers, 17% of the total respondents derive their primary income from blogging. Day 4:Blogging Revenues, Brands and Blogs: SOTB 2009

  

• In January, trade e-book sales were $31.9 million which is the highest single month thus far and a 261.2% increase over January 2009. The January 2010 sales surpassed December 2009 sales of 19.1 million which was the previous highest month. January 2010 e-book sales statistics
• The Palm Pre sold 50,000 phones its first weekend while the iPhone sold 270,000 units during its first two days of availability and the iPad sold 300,000 units on the first day of availability. Verizon to offer Palm Pre in early 2010 and First-day iPad sales top first-gen iPhone
• 185,000 is the number of Applications (apps) in iTunes. Has Steve Jobs gone mad?
• Estimated number of iPads sold as of April 11, 2010 821,000. Chitika Labs iPad Statistics
• In Wikipedia, the article titled Avatar was been viewed 1,363,783 times in January 2010. The article ranked 18 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org. The article Virtual World was viewed 929 times that month. Wikipedia Article Traffic Stats.

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