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The who, why, and how of Twitter [Infographic] - Twitter. China's Net Users Among World's Most Active, Engaged | Penn-Olson. Jeffbullas. 13 Mind-Bending Social Media Marketing Statistics. Many of us know that social media marketing is an important part of a solid inbound marketing strategy. However, sometimes we need some backup when speaking with others who might still be struggling to understand how social media fits into the overall marketing mix. This post is for them -- and you. Even if you are a veteran inbound marketer, these stats will get the gears in your head turning about the still limitless possibilities that the internet provides. 1. 20 percent of searches on Google each day have NEVER been searched for before. (Source) Tweet This Stat! 3. 43 percent of all online consumers are social media fans or followers (Source) Tweet This Stat!

4. 53 percent of people on Twitter recommend companies or their products in their tweets. 5. 7. 56 percent of LinkedIn's 100 million users are outside of the United States. 8. 10. 200 million Facebook users access the service from a mobile device. 11. 12. 45 million people view SlideShare presentations each month. Infographic: 83 percent of young people sleep next to their cell phones. Imad Naffa Twitter tweets related to: Marriage, Divorce, Numbers, Stats and more. How Many People Actually Use Twitter? Good Question. Here’s a shocker for you: Newt Gingrich probably didn’t pad his Twitter follower list with fictitious accounts. And, to make matters weirder, the reason that people thought that he had is the same reason why even Twitter isn’t sure how many users it actually has: inactive users.

(MORE: Report: 92% of Newt Gingrich’s Twitter Followers Aren’t Real) According to Mashable‘s investigation into Gingrich’s Twitter followers, his campaign’s explanation that why so many followers’ accounts were inactive was that the majority of them were once genuine accounts that started to follow him during a period of “Suggested User promotion” back in 2009-2010 turned out to be true. Apparently the high level of drop-off is what prompted Twitter’s VP of International Strategy to underestimate the number of the company’s registered users by more than 100 million earlier this year. Discover Digital Arabia: Middle East Internet usage in numbers. N2V, one of the largest Internet holding companies in the Middle East, just launched a brand new site aiming to bring together all statistics relating to Internet, mobile and social media usage, and more, in the region.

The new site, Discover Digital Arabia makes it easier than ever to understand how the Middle East is using modern technology, and how it differs from country to country. Taking a look at the statistics available on Discover Digital Arabia, and its original sources, you can get a sense of the movers and shakers in various online sectors. Facebook In the past 6 months, Iraq, Egypt and Algeria have seen the biggest spikes in Facebook usage, increasing anywhere between 48 and 61%. With the Internet blackout in Libya, Facebook usage dropped over 70% but may begin to see an increase as the service is being restored. Digital Marketing Thanks to Discover Digital Arabic, we know that “Companies in MENA are spending 22% of their annual marketing budget on digital.”

And: E-Commerce. Impact of Social Media in the Middle East | PRSA Diversity Today Blog. This piece was originally published on the Saxum Perspective Blog. Last month, I was invited to speak with a group of South Asian students visiting The Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Oklahoma. The workshop was about new media and its impact on democracies in the 21st century. I met with 20 students from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Naturally, the Arab Spring was a major topic of discussion. According to the Arab Social Media Report, at the end of the first quarter of 2011, there were 27.7 million Facebook users in the Arab world, a 30 percent jump from the beginning of the year.

In particular, youth between 15 and 29 account for around 70 percent of Arab Facebook users. Facebook users in Tunisia and Egypt found that six out of 10 respondents in both countries indicated that blocking access provided a boost to movements, spurring protesters to more decisive and creative action. Submitted by Houda Elyazgi. Tags: Houda Elyazgi, Saxum. World Population Day: We’ll Reach 7 Billion By October 2011. ByMandy Adwellon07/12/2011 July 11 was World Population Day and those of us here at The 9 Billion, a site named after the expected population level by the year 2050, went ahead and missed the day. Oh, irony. Since July 11, 1987, this day each year has been known as World Population Day. It started as “the day of 5 billion,” and continued on each year as a way to track world population and bring light to population growth trends and issues related to it.

The irony of us skipping World Population Day goes hand in hand with the fact that so many of us go on with our daily lives without thinking about or noticing the world population increasing, despite the fact that it is growing at a very rapid pace. If we want to sustain the Earth and maintain a healthy planet with 9 billion people living here, we will certainly have to take action in our own lives to provide and maintain a clean and healthy living space for future generations. Image CC licensed by bjaglin: Crowded street. Ten Countries with the Highest Population in the World. List of countries by GDP (nominal) This article includes a list of countries in the world sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP), the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year.

The GDP dollar estimates presented here are calculated at market or government official exchange rates. Several economies which are not considered to be countries (world, the EU, and some dependent territories) are included in the lists because they appear in the sources. These economies are not ranked in the charts here, but are listed where applicable. The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results can vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currency. Such fluctuations may change a country's ranking from one year to the next, even though they often make little or no difference to the standard of living of its population. Worldometers-Real time Amazing World Stats.

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2010 US Census Stats. World Countries Dialing Codes, Population, GDP. Youth Bulges in Mena Region- Risk or Asset. Youth in the MENA region- demographics. Prosperity Index. UN Stats Division. Public Data Explorer. World Dev. World Development Indicators (subset) - Google Public Data Explorer.

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