Wondering if you the eyecare professional or sales rep should get into Facebook, or you haven’t updated or even placed a picture on Facebook. Check out the lastest 2010 Facebook stats and then go and update your page.
Statistics From Facebook
Company Figures
- More than 400 million active users
- 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- More than 35 million users update their status each day
- More than 60 million status updates posted each day
- More than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
- More than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week
- More than 3.5 million events created each month
- More than 3 million active Pages on Facebook
- More than 1.5 million local businesses have active Pages on Facebook
- More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day
- Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans
Average User Figures
- Average user has 130 friends on the site
- Average user sends 8 friend requests per month
- Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook
- Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month
- Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month
- Average user becomes a fan of 4 Pages each month
- Average user is invited to 3 events per month
- Average user is a member of 13 groups
International Growth
- More than 70 translations available on the site
- About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
- Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
Platform
- More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
- Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
- More than 500,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
- More than 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users
- More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008
- More than 60 million Facebook users engage with Facebook Connect on external websites every month
- Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have implemented Facebook Connect
Mobile
- There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
- People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
- There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
Photo: istrategylabs.com
So who is on Facebook? iStrategy labs who has been tracking Facebook since 2007, just released this important information, which is also available on Facebook Social Ad. What’s important:
Note age group using FB- Fashion-eyesta’s about and disposable income. New York, Chicago and Los Angeles lead the pack in Facebookers, that means if you are not in those areas, I definitely would consider signing up FOR FREE and get involved in the wave of social media and marketing!
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Great! Keep social media in sight!
Go team!
Great information Cathy! The statistics are proof that social media should be on everyone’s marketing radar.