Evidence of the social media revolution

In case you still needed convincing social media is not a trend, but a revolution:

• There are over 200,000,000 blogs in the world and 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily.
• It took Radio 38 years to reach 50 million users. TV did better: 13 years, the Internet 4 Years and iPod 3 Years. Facebook on the other hand added 100 million users in less than 9 months.
• Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web.
• 80% of all companies use LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees.
• The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube.
• Wikipedia has over 13 million articles.
• Facebook USERS translated the site from English to Spanish via a Wiki in less than 4 weeks and cost Facebook $0.
• Only 14% of the consumers say they trust advertising, yet 78% will follow a friend’s recommendation. 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands.
• 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content.
• More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook…daily.

Discovered via O’Conall Street

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