FACEBOOK:
→ During Barack Obama’s rise to the White House, in 2009, more than 5.4 million users clicked on Facebook’s “I voted for Obama” button
→ Weekly, Facebook shares 3.5 billion unique pieces of social media content.
→ More than 6 billion minutes are wasted each day on Facebook, worldwide.
→ More than 2.5 billion photos and 14 million videos are uploaded each month
→ Facebook is accessed by more than 65 million, active, mobile phone users.
→ Facebook integration extends to more than 15,000 sites → Psychologists has identified Facebook as a new disease, dubbed FAD; Facebook Addiction Disorder.
→ According to Forbes, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire; founding the networking giant in 2004 at a tender twenty.
TWITTER:
→ Twitter’s political influence pinnacled mass media headlines, taking unprecedented measures to report on the 2009 Iran elections.
→ Coverage of the Iran Elections took the summit of Twitter’s longest Trending Topic duration, in 2009.
→ Social media carried political influence, nobility used during the United States presidential campaign in 2008, its use continued through 2009 by President Barack Obama; as a result Twitter gained grand exposure.
→ $3,000,000 worth of Dell computers were sold, on Twitter
→ In 2009, Twitter experienced the longest downtime due to a denial of service attack, effecting millions of users.
→ Twitter gained mass popularity in 2009 by mass mainstream media sources, yielding free marketing to a start-up company of limited funds; due to this it’s profitability soared.
→ More than 200 Twitter social media “clones” exist, many country based; another 80+ are based within the United States
→ In 2009, Twitter successfully incorporated a variety of words into household terms, such as tweet, Tweepie, Tweepole, and Twittertainment
GENERAL:
→ eBay found that those active in social media spend 54% more money.
→ 61% of 12-17 year olds are active in social media, 42% of them check the accounts daily
→ Second Life allows users to engage in social communication, while earning money playing its virtual world role-playing game.
→ Rivals, Microsoft and Google have attacked; Microsoft releasing its popular Bing search engine, later in 2009 Google would release its Chrome operating system days following Microsoft’s Windows 7 release.
→ Google opened 2009 with listings exceeding one trillion unique sites and continued to take headlines with released new innovations.
→ “How to Boil an Egg” is consistently one of the most popular articles on eHow
→ Youtube is ranked at the second most popular search engine
→ Yahoo attempted to purchase Facebook for $1 billion, an offer turned down; yet it would later team up to provide integration to its users
→ More than 300 social networks are currently functional, each offering a different concept for its users.
→ Digg remains the most popular social bookmarking site
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