The latest social media statistics

These are the latest social media statistics for all the major social networking sites.

This list was compiled from the following sources and includes data up to and including the second quarter of 2012. (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Foursquare, SlideShare, TechCrunch, YouTube, Mashable, Pinterest, Google+, and Google)

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Mike

Twitter Statistics

•500 Million accounts

•40+ Billion tweets

•175 Million tweets a day

•70% of companies ignore complaints on twitter

•909 employees

•11 new accounts created every second, over 1 million new per day.

Facebook Statistics

•850+ million members

•31% check in once a day

•Avg of 20 min per day

•2.7 billion likes per day

•100 billion connections

•20 million apps installed daily

•250 million photos daily

•425 million access via mobile

Pinterest Statistics

•10.4 Million users, faster growth than any site – ever.

•Retaining and engaging 3x better than twitter “was”

•80% of users are women, 60% have attended college, 50% have kids

•Demographics:

•18-24 years (17%)

•25-34 years (30%)

•35-44 years (25%)

Google+ Statistics

•90+ million users

•g+ button is served 5 billion times a day

•g+ users:

•44% of users are single

•29% female / 71% male

•20% are students

•Avg of 6 minutes on site

YouTube Statistics:

•4 billion videos viewed, every day, 1 trillion is 2011

•24 hours of video uploaded, every 24 seconds

•2.9 billion hours a month on the site, 326,294 years

•800 million users per month

•Auto speech recognition tech translates video and captions into 43 languages

Google Statistics:

•3+ billion searches daily

•124 languages

•20% of searches are local

SlideShare Statistics:

•Largest social “content” network

•60 million visits a month

•400,000 new presentations uploaded per month

•Top 200 web sites

•110,000 “recruiting” documents

•LinkedIn acquired SlideShare last week

LinkedIn Statistics:

•161 million members

•2 million company pages

•4.2 billion searches in 2011

•22% of traffic from mobile (last week of March)

•More than 1 million groups

•35% of students search for jobs on LI, 700% increase since 2010

Mobile Statistics:

•5.9 Billion subscribers

•8 Trillion SMS messages sent in 2011

•11+ Billion apps downloaded, 1 in 4 never used again

•The number of mobile searches quadrupled in the last year

•8.49% of global web site hits come from mobile

Foursquare Statistics

•23 million users

•2 billion check-ins

•Users and check-ins have doubled in 6 months