49 Amazing Social Media Stats

Adam Singer at The Future Buzz reports on 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats. The post aggregates statistics (and cites sources) from some of the largest social media properties online today including Google Search, Twitter, YouTube, and Wikipedia. Here are some of the more interesting statistics:

• 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) - approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s Search index
• 2,695,205 - the number of articles in English on Wikipedia
• 70,000,000 - number of total videos on YouTube (March 2008)
• 133,000,000 - number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002
• 1,111,991,000 - number of Tweets on Twitter to date
• 150,000,000 - number of active Facebook users

via Micro Persuasion

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