The Social Media Statistics image below was created by the folks at Searchandsocial.com. It really gives an insight to the amount of time businesses and individuals are spending on social media.

The recent SocialMediaVision.com poll “How Much Time Do You Spend A Day On SEO & Social Media?” also gives us an idea that people are using social networking media sites more and more these days.

Now lets go over the image and some of the amazing stats. 2000 random tweets were analyzed and the following was found:

• 43% Babble
• 38% Conversational
• 9% Moderatley Interesting
• 6% Self-Promotional
• 4% Spam

13.9 Billion minutes Facebook users spent on the site in April 2009, a 700% increase from April 2008.

35% of Americans 18 and over used a social networking site in 2008.

95% of business decision makers worldwide use social networks to some extent.

All of this information is very valuable to any marketer in whatever market or niche. If you happened to be wondering if social media or social networking sites are worth your time, I would have to say that these statistics speak for themselves.

Watch this awesome video below that depicts the ROI of using social media marketing in your business!

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Visual Social Media Statistics

I put the following social media poll together to see how much time individuals and businesses spends per day on Search Engine Optimization and Social Media. Would love everyone’s feedback! Simply fill out the poll below:

Here are some social media stats from Jake Hird

• Social networks and blogs are the 4th most popular online activities online, including beating personal email. 67% of global users visit member communities and 10% of all time spent on the internet is on social media sites.
• If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth most populated place in the world. This means it easily beats the likes of Brazil, Russia and Japan in terms of size.*
• 80% of companies use, (or are planning to use), LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees during the course of this year. The site has just celebrated reaching its 45-millionth membership.
• Around 64% of marketers are using social media for 5 hours or more each week during campaigns, with 39% using it for 10 or more hours per week.
• It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million listeners. Terrestrial TV took 13 years to reach 50 million users. The internet took four years to reach 50 million people… In less than nine months, Facebook added 100 million users.
• Wikipedia currently has more than 13 million articles in more than 260 different languages. The site attracts over 60 million unique users a month and it’s often hotly debated that the information it contains is more reliable than any printed Encyclopaedia.
• The most recent figure of blogs being indexed by Technorati currently stands at 133 million. The same report into the Blogosphere also revealed that on average, 900,000 blog posts are created within a single 24-hour period.
• It’s been suggested that YouTube is likely to serve over 75 billion video streams to around 375 million unique visitors during this year.
• The top three people on Twitter (Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears) have more combined followers than the entire population of Austria.*
• According to Socialnomics, if you were paid $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $156.23 per hour.
• The online bookmarking service, Delicious, has more than five million users and over 150 million unique bookmarked URLs.
• Since April this year, Twitter has been receiving around 20 million unique visitors to the site each month, according to some analytical sources.
• Formed in 2004, Flickr now hosts more than 3.6 billion user images.
• Universal McCann reports that 77% of all active internet users regularly read blogs.

Stats found at 20+ more mind-blowing social media statistics

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How Much Time Do You Spend A Day On Social Media?