When I had a chance to look at these social media statistics for 2012, I was not amazed.  We always new that social media was having a major impact in the business world.  Here are the social media facts to prove it.

Facebook Statistics

1. Barack Obama’s victory Facebook post was the most liked photo on Facebook with over 4 million likes. (source: The Huffington Post)
2. 25 percent of users on Facebook don’t bother with any kind of privacy control. (source: AllTwitter)
3. An average Facebook users has 130 friends. (source: AllTwitter)
4. Monthly active users now total nearly 850 million. (source: Jeff Bullas)
5. 21 percent of Facebook users are from Asia, which is only less than 4 percent of Asia’s population. (source: Uberly)
6. 488 million users regularly use Facebook mobile. (source: All Facebook)
7. Brazil publishes the most number of posts out of all Facebook countries. More than 800 Pages kept their Facebook walls busy with almost 86 thousand posts per month. (source: Socialbakers)
8. 23 percent of Facebook’s users check their account 5 or more times daily. (source: Socialnomics)
9. Facebook hosts 42 million “Pages” with 10 or more likes. (source: Jeff Bullas)
10. More than 1 million websites have integrated with Facebook in various ways. (source: Uberly)
11. 85 percent of women are annoyed by their friends on Facebook. (source: AllTwitter)
12. Facebook has seen a 41 percent growth in active users from Russia, South Korea, Japan, India and Brazil during 2012. (source: DreamGrow)
13. 250 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day. (source: Jeff Bullas)
14. As of 2012, 210,000 years of music have been played on Facebook. (source: Gizmodo)
15. Links about sex are shared 90 percent more than any other link. (source: AllTwitter)
16. As of 2012, 17 billion location-tagged posts and check-ins were logged. (source: Gizmodo)
17. 80 percent of social media users prefer to connect with brands through Facebook. (source: Business2Community)
18. 43 percent of Facebook users are male, while 57 percent of Facebook users are female. (source: Uberly)
19. As of April, Zygna’s games revenue was 12 percent of Facebook’s total income. (source: Jeff Bullas)
20. A whopping 77 percent of B2C companies and 43 percent of B2B companies acquired customers from Facebook. (source: Business2Community)

Twitter Statistics

21. There are 175 million tweets sent from Twitter every day in 2012. (source: Infographics Labs)
22. The average Twitter user has tweeted 307 times. (source: Diego Basch’s Blog)
23. Since the dawn of Twitter, there’s been a total of 163 billion tweets. (source: Diego Basch’s Blog)
24. 56 percent of customer tweets to companies are being ignored. (sources: AllTwitter)
25. Barack Obama’s victory tweet was the most retweeted tweet ever with over 800K retweets. (source: The Guardian)
26. Top 3 countries on Twitter are the USA at 107 million, Brazil 33 million and Japan at nearly 30 million. (source: Jeff Bullas)
27. The average user follows (or is followed by) 51 people. (source: Diego Basch’s Blog)
28. The 2012 election broke records with 31.7 million political tweets. Election Day was by far the most tweeted about event in US political history. (source: Marketing Land)
29. 32 percent of all Internet users are using Twitter. (source: Marketing Land)
30. Twitter is projected to make a total of $540 million in advertising revenue by 2014. (source: Web Analytics World)
31. 69 percent of follows on Twitter are suggested by friends. (source: Web Analytics World)
32. In 2012, 1 million accounts are added to Twitter everyday. (source: Infographics Labs)
33. Lady Gaga has 31 million followers, which is the most followed account on Twitter. (source: Socialbakers)
34. The most followed brand on Twitter is YouTube with 19 million followers. (source: All Twitter)
35. The USA’s 141.8 million accounts represents 27.4 percent of all Twitter users. (source: All Twitter)
36. The “Castle in the Sky” TV screening was the busiest time on Twitter ever with 25,088 tweets per second. (source: Sys-Con)
37. 11 accounts are created every second on Twitter. (source: Infographics Labs)
38. 50 percent of Twitter users are using the social network via mobile. (source: Microsoft tag)
39. 34 percent of marketers have generated leads using Twitter. (source: Digital Buzz Blog)
40. 26 percent of retweets are incited by a request to retweet. (source: Web Analytics World)

Instagram Statistics

41. There are 575 likes and 81 comments by Instagram users every second. (source: Digital Buzz Blog)
42. Users uploaded more than 800,000 photos of Hurricane Sandy using the hashtag #Sandy. (source: Information Week)
43. In August 2012, Instagram hit 80 million users and counting. (source: Visual.ly)
44. In August 2012, Instagram had an average of 7.3 million daily active users. (source: All Things D)
45. The average Instagram user spent 257 minutes accessing the photo-sharing site via mobile device in August, while the average Twitter user over the same period spent 170 minutes viewing. (source: All Things D)
46. More than 5 million photos are uploaded to Instagram every day. (source: Business Insider)
47. Nearly 4 billion photos have been shared on Instagram since its beginning. (source: The Realtime Report)
48. 40 percent of brands have adopted Instagram for marketing. (source: Marketing Land)
49. Of the top brands, 20 percent surveyed had 10,000 or more followers. (source: Marketing Land)
50. In a six-month span, Instagram’s average daily mobile visitors jumped from 886,000 to 7.3 million, which is a 724 percent leap. (source: Marketing Land)
51. This year alone, Instagram users liked 78 million photos. (source: Digital Buzz Blog)
52. Instagram has 432,000 more daily users than Twitter in August 2012. (source: All Twitter)
53. Users on Instagram spend 257 minutes using the app, as opposed to the 169.9 minutes spent on Twitter in August 2012. (source: All Twitter)
54. The Android version received over 430,000 pre-registrations. (source: See My City)
55. Instagram had 1 million downloads in a day when the Android app launched. (source: Visual.ly)
56. Instagram was one of the largest acquisition of a venture capital-backed consumer Web company since Zappos was bought by Amazon for $1.22B in 2009. (source: Factbrowser)
57. It took just 10 months for Instagram to reach the milestone of 150m pictures uploaded. (source: Siliconrepublic)
58. According to Followgram’s research, 37 percent of Instagram users have never uploaded a single photo and only 5 percent of users have more than 50 pictures. (source: Siliconrepublic)
59. The top 5 of the top 100 hash tags on Instagram are #love, #instagood, #me, #tbt and #cute. (source: Statigram)
60. Facebook’s billion dollar valuation of Instagram makes the less-than-two-year-old startup more valuable than 161-year-old The New York Times Company. The New York Times Company was valued at 946 million dollars based on yesterday’s closing price at the NYSE. (source: NDTV Gadgets)

Pinterest Statistics

61. 97 percent of the fans of Pinterest’s Facebook page are women. (source: AllTwitter)
62. Over 80 percent of pins are repins. (source: AllTwitter)
63. 80 percent of Pinterest users are women, while 50 percent of all Pinterest users have children. (source: Search Engine Journal)
64. American users of Pinterest spend an average of 1 hour and 17 minutes on the site. (source: Search Engine Journal)
65. Pinterest referrals spend 70 percent more money than visitors referred from non-social channels. (source: Search Engine Journal)
66. 28.1 percent of Pinterest users have an annual household income of $100,000. (source: Ultralinx)
67. Total unique visitors to Pinterest increased by 2,702.2 percent since May 2011. (source: Ultralinx)
68. Users spend an average of 16 minutes on Pinterest a visit. (source: AllTwitter)
69. The average Pinterest user spends 98 minutes per month on the site, compared to 2.5 hours on Tumblr, and 7 hours on Facebook. (source: Arik Hanson)
70. Pinterest pins with prices get 36 percent more likes than those without. (source: Shopify)
71. Pinterest hit 10 million U.S. monthly unique visitors faster than any independent site in history. (source: Sirona Consulting)
72. 83.9 percent of a pinners time is spent Pinning, while 15.5 percent is spent liking and 0.6 percent is spent leaving comments. (source: Repinly)
73. Out of 17 million brand engagements, 15 percent occurred on the brand’s boards and 85 percent occurred elsewhere on Pinterest. (source: Curalate)
74. 69 percent of online consumers who visit Pinterest have found an item they’ve bought or wanted to buy, compared with 40 percent of Facebook users. (source: All Facebook)
75. Over 1/5 of Facebook-connected users are on Pinterest daily, which represents more than 2 million members. (source: AppData)
76. The most popular age group on Pinterest is 25 – 34 year olds. (source: AllTwitter)
77. 43 percent of people prefer Pinterest to associate with retailers or brands; 24 percent chose Facebook. (source: All Facebook)
78. 9 percent of people have participated in contests or promotions via Pinterest, as opposed to the 30 percent that have on Facebook. (source: All Facebook)
79. 25 percent of Fortune Global 100 companies have Pinterest accounts. (source: Burson-Marsteller)
80. 57 percent of Pinterest users interact with food-related content, the #1 category of content. (source: Compete)

Google+ Statistics

81. The Google +1 button is used 5 billion times per day. (source: AllTwitter)
82. 48 percent of fortune global 100 companies are now on Google+. (source: Burson-Marsteller)
83. Google+ pages appear in search results for 30 percent of brand term searches for brands with G+ pages, up from 5 percent in February 2012. (source: Bright Edge)
84. Only 8 percent of Americans 12+ have a Google+ profile page. (source: Edison Research)
85. The automotive industry has 2.7MM circlers on Google+, compared to 1.9MM for electronics, and 1.3MM for luxury goods. (source: Simply Measured)
86. Total circlers of brand pages on Google+ increased by 138 percent between February and May 2012. (source: Simply Measured)
87. H&M has the most Google+ posts of any brand, with 740, compared to 571 for Google, 515 for Ferrari, and 460 for MTV. (source: Simply Measured)
88. 47 percent of Hispanic consumers use Google+, compared to the U.S. average of 18 percent. (source: USAMP)
89. 625,000 new users on Google+ every day. (source: AllTwitter)
90. 40 percent of marketers use Google+, 70 percent want to learn more about it and 67 percent plan on increasing Google+ activities. (source: Social Media Examiner)
91. 42 percent of worldwide Google+ users are single; 27 percent are married. (source: Website-Monitoring)
92. 68 percent of Google+ users are Male, while 32 percent of Google+ users are female. (source: Mashable)
93. Google+ active users spend over 60 minutes a day across Google products (source: Jeff Bullas)
94. Google+ users spend on average 12 minutes per day in the Google+. (source: Jeff Bullas)
95. Websites using the +1 button generate 3.5x the Google+ visits than sites without the button. (source: HubSpot)
96. At least 60 percent of Google+ users log in daily. (source: tecmark)
97. At least 80 percent of Google+ users engage on a weekly basis. (source: Chris Brogan)
98. Google+ cost $585 million and took 500 employees to build. (source: Social Media Delivered)
99. 30 percent of users who make a public post never make a second one. (source: Jeff Bullas)
100. Google+ is expected to attract 400 million users by the end of 2012. (source: Remcolandia)

we looked at these facts and are now tweeking some of our brand message to help increase our results.  We hope you got as much from this as we did.

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Having a profile on the top 24 social media sites can help your search relevancy.  While most sites have less than 14 sites linking back to them, you can have 24 top teir sites linking to your website using social profiles.  This techniques has been used for the past couple of years with great success.

Here is the list of the top 24 social media sites.

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What is that? a social media brand umbrella is the ability to surround your website or company with relevant social media profiles that are updated weekly.  300 social media profiles to be exact.  Your building an army of profiles that will talk good about you.  The key step is using online tools like the site http://ifttt.com/dashboard to automate you post.

When you post on one site that message goes out to all sites linked by ifttt.  The way we maximize the use of this tool is by linking only 5 social profiles together with one message system and then creating another message system for another 5 social media profiles.

Now all messages must have links back to your site and to other social profiles.  This technique creates a link wheel and increases all your social profiles relevancy and activity across the board.

Social Media First Impressions are Everything

What next:  Gather users.  We gather users using tools that will help us identify our target market.  These social media tools help us send messages out from facebook, request subscribers from youtube and follow twitter followers that are in our industry so they can follow us.  Before you do this you must make sure your social media campaigns look good.  When someone is approached by a standard social profile the individual or company has no reason to follow you.  First impressions our everything if you don’t look like an expert then your job becomes harder.  People will start evaluating you more and more.

List of top Social media companies:

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As a former YMCA coach for synchronized swimming I recalled how we had our students do a complete performance.  A complete performance means that we need to think about the look of the program and the fell from the vary moment the audience sees them.  So imagine the costumes the music the land movements and then the water movements.  Everything being flowed from one source to the next.  Same in social media.
Integrated marketing is when you combine offline marketing practices (print ads, word of mouth, brochures, call cards, conventions, etc.) with your digital or internet marketing (search, social, video, and mobile).
Here are 2 ways you can get a Perfect 10 from the judges, in this case, the consumers or your target market:
1. Practice consistency and uniformity.

Every stroke, every step, every turn of the head should be consistent. This means all your marketing efforts both online and offline should relay the same message and contain the same information.

2. Develop a killer choreography.
Do your marketing channels supplement and complement each other? They need not be alike but there should be choreography for it to make sense to your target market.
Nowadays, most of us can’t help but get busy on the online world – the hi-tech stuff – that we forget there’s also potential in the real, low-tech world too when raking in customers.
Are you pairing up online and offline marketing efforts?

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Now here is the latest from the huffington post on the new social campaign that will rock the political world and others.

In late May, the Obama campaign unveiled its latest innovation in the usage of social media: The Dashboard. The rollout was impressive and the tool itself was well-received. It is more proof, as if any more is needed, that Barack Obama is a master of the deployment of social media in political campaigns.

When I was asked to explain the Dashboard to MSNBC’s Chris Jansing, I did so readily. I am normally a big fan of television as a medium to convey complex information quickly and powerfully; I am also no stranger to the pressures of on-air delivery. But I was a bit frustrated by the constraints of the venue, which may have limited what I could have said — and more importantly, what I should have said — about the campaign’s latest leap forward in the social media wars.

How does it work? It’s frightfully simple, really –as most ingenious things tend to be.
Let’s start at the beginning: registration. All campaign volunteers are required to register online by giving and address and a ZIP code. On the next screen, they are asked to log in with an Obama campaign account. (If a volunteer does not yet have an account, this is a chance to create one.)

Full story here

current social showdown.

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Google changes there search algorithm every couple of months.  The new changes are big and are effecting search results across the internet.

Panda release for instance looks for pages that are considered to be spam pages.
A spam pages is a page that has these types of conditions.

• Duplicate text content over 40%:  Google spider looks for text on your page that came from another website.
• Thin text:  These are websites that just have one or two lines of text and nothing else.  Its obvious to google that you are just trying to rank for a keywords.
• Little Rich media:  Rich media are Jpgs, Movies, Graphs, Infographics and other multimedia sources.  If a page is just text with no images googles algorithm
• Keyword spamming or cloaking:  Hiding keywords using CSS and other hiding techniques.

So what can you do?

Do it right produce pages and website that have rich text and rich media on it.
Do not over optimized.

Google will rank anything if it has authority:
Authority = 90% links + 10% Traffic, Social, Usage, Etc.

Check your site by using Googles master tools:

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Even through the past couple of days of a downward spiral for facebook, the history of the company looks good.  Facebook history of becoming the business model to follow is amazing.
See the lessons and the trials of what made Facebook and daily use item like the Microwave.

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Why is facebook the leader in social media.

Here is a look at the new figures that facebook posted during there S-1 form filing with the Securities and Exchange

Highlighted Facebook social figures:

• Facebook says it has 901 million active users. Based on a rounded world population of 6.8 billion people, this breaks down to about 1.3 Facebook accounts for every 10 people on the planet.
• Facebook says it serves 3.2 billion “likes” and comments daily.
• Facebook says it hosts 300 million photo uploads every day.
• There are 125 billion established friendships on the social network.
• It was widely reported that Facebook would choose NASDAQ for its listing. This was confirmed in the amended filing, with Facebook proposing “FB” as its market symbol.

Additionally, the filing dove into the acquisition of Instagram:

• It was widely known that Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion, but the stock-to-cash breakdown wasn’t known until Monday.
• Facebook says it bought Instagram for $300 million in cash and 23 million shares of common stock.
• If the U.S. government blocks its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook says it has agreed to pay Instagram a termination fee of $200 million.

These number really show the reach that facebook has with its audience.  Once you tap into this type of potential growth your company can instantly get the social traffic it is looking for.

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