The Growth of Social Media: The Surge Continues

Written by on August 30, 2011 in Marketing + Design - No comments
The Growth of Social Media ~ via the Social Media Journal

// via the Search Engine Journal:
The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic

Highlights of interest:

  • If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s 3rd largest
  • There are over 640M registered Facebook users
  • More people are sharing content; More people are accessing this content via a Mobile device
  • On Twitter, tweets per day rose 252% in the last year
  • 80% of companies use social media for recruitment, 95% of them use LinkedIn
  • 71% of companies use Facebook; 59% use Twitter
  • 43% of companies use blogs for marketing, up from 16% in 2007

Social Media is well beyond a 15-minutes-of-fame mark and is here to stay. Companies need to get on board more than ever — and “be” where the people are.

The Growth of Social Media via the Search Engine Journal

About the Author

Designer Rob Russo loves to work and play on the homestead with his wife, Jes, their three daughters and a big flock of chickens. He is a designer, marketer and social media fanatic that blogs at DesignerRobRusso.com and marketing director of HelloScent.com. You should follow Rob on Twitter.

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