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52 Cool Facts About Social Media

13.5K Shares 13.5K Shares × As social media continues to gain acceptance as a bona-fide communications platform, I thought it might be fun to have a cool fact about it for every week of the year. So, here are ten facts about the five most well-known social media outlets – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and blogging – with two more bonus facts thrown in just for fun. (And to get to the figure of a fact a week for a year). Enjoy! Facebook 1. Statistics from Facebook press office. Twitter 11. Statistics from Twitter and the Chirp Conference . LinkedIn 21. Statistics from LinkedIn press centre and SysComm International . YouTube 31. Statistics from YouTube press centre. Blogging 41. 77% of Internet users read blogs. 42. Statistics from Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009 . Bonus Facts 51. 90% of Internet users know at least one social network. 52. Statistics from Online Media Gazette . Cheers!

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Hootsuite Was Down: 5 other Tools to Schedule Your Tweets With Hootsuite being down I saw myself and lots of other people in dire need to continue scheduling tweets. So here is a list of 5 other services, which will allow you to schedule your tweets. They are all up and running. 1.) How to Use Blog Lists for Your Social Media Strategy My recent post 52 Cool Facts About Social Media seems to have been a bit popular. Hopefully it helped show some of the reasons why social media is a platform that all businesses should take seriously, and at the very least investigate whether they should be active or not. One of the things I saw as a result of the post were a few emails that said, “Great stats, but how would you use information like that for your business?” Now, it’d be tempting to say, “Easy – hire my company!” but instead here are a few ways on how you could use a stat from each platform.

2010 Social Media Statistics Posted by Joey Wolff on August 11, 2010 With all the hub-bub around social media, I thought it was time to put together some social media statistics for 2010. The following social media statistics mostly show a snapshot of the current major players in social media at this time with a little nonsensical commentary from me. FaceBook Statistics Facebook continues to be one the fastest growing and largest active social networks. Our facebook social media statistics come courtesy of facebook. 15 Frequently Asked Questions About Facebook Pages Facebook provides a comprehensive Help Center with its own range of FAQs along with helpful content from a vast number of users. [There's even a handy Leaderboard - Top Contributor - with points system to see which users have been most helpful. Links just go to the user's personal Profile, though. It would be great to see all their answers in one place, similar to user profiles on Quora.]

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Everybody’s Doing It: How Marketers Are Utilizing Social Media In 2010 This post was written by Jenny Urbano, our Social Media Manager. Here at Demandforce, we love seeing and celebrating your ideas! And more than that, we love to hear from YOU. We want to bridge the gap between us and you, so that’s why we’re offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a trip to San Francisco, sightsee in this amazing city, visit Demandforce headquarters and share your ideas with us! 6 winners, and a guest of their choice will be flown out to San Francisco, California on March 12-14th, 2014, where they will stay in Union Square, spend a day at Demandforce, have dinner with the team, and explore the lovely City by the Bay! For contest rules, and how to enter, please visit our post in the Generation Demandforce Community here.

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