Top 10 stats from the social media numbers game

I’m constantly asked for different statistics or metrics to justify what people want to do or are doing. Sometimes it drives me a little crazy that some people still don’t understand what’s going on with the web. There are still groups that seem to think the web is a fad and not an integral business and communications channel.

For those that are somehow still in that group, here’s a great post from futurebuzz.com. Here’s ten of the more interesting statistics here but do visit the link for the full list. Very impressive.

• 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) – approximate number of unique URLs in
• 2,000,000,000 (two billion) – very rough number of Google searches daily
• 2,695,205 – the number of articles in English on Wikipedia
• 684,000,000 – the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last year
• 70,000,000 – number of total videos on YouTube (March 2008)
• 412.3 years – length in time it would take to view all content on YouTube (March 2008)
• 133,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002
• 346,000,000 – number of people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008)
• more than 1,111,991,000 tweets to date on Twitter
• 150,000,000 – number of active users on Facebook

This stuff isn’t going away people.

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