Social Media Infographic 2013: Sharing Facts and Figures
Social media play an important role in our daily lives. We can not live without it and some users seem to already stabbing their time in tracking and sharing content on social media sites. Which social networks are currently popular? And who shares what online? Social media infographic explains in depth , what people do she the most on social media websites.
Facebook is still number one
Blog Webhostingbuzz collected facts and figures of social media usage in 2013. This infographic shows facts about eight most popular platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google Plus, YouTube, Tumblr and Instagram. Facebook is still in first place with 1 billion monthly active users. This number is the same as the global population in the year 1804. The users are active on the platform: they place 800 million daily status updates, Facebook users share more than 219 billion photos and give them 3.2 billion likes and comments.
Twitter and Google Plus Are Catching Up Quickly
According to social media infographic, Google plus is the second most popular social networking platform.Google Plus has over 500 million members.But the question is – how active these users are? Because you get automatically a Google Plus account when creating an account for any of the other services of the search engine giant. The G+1 button is used 5 billion times daily. The third place is occupied by micro-blogging site Twitter. This platform has more than 200 million active users(according to IPO declaration 232) sharing 250 million daily tweets. More than half of Twitter users access the site via their smartphones.
Most Popular – Visual Content
As social media infographic reveals, aout of the Top 8 most popular sites – 4 are visual content sharing platforms.YouTube videos are extremely popular to share on other social platforms. Every day on Facebook people watch 500 years of YouTube videos. Every minute there are 700 videos shared on Twitter. Instagram is the most popular community to share photos. Over 40 million photos are shared through the Instagram app online every day. Since the beginning of Instagram,nearly 4 billion photos are posted on the platform. Pinterest is catching up quickly. On the visual network giant, users share more than 11 million photos on their boards. Over 80 percent of Pinterest users are women.
Full overview of what do people share the most on social media, is shown in the social media infographic below.
