10 Eye-Popping Facts About Facebook from SeeWhy
- 1. 10 Eye-popping Facts About Facebook
- 2. Fact #1Facebook is the #1 website worldwide with more page views than Google. Only Google out ranks it in terms of unique visitors, (but not for long).Source: Nielsen, Global Faces and Networked Places, 2009
- 3. Fact #275% of Americans, and 66% of the global internet population visit social networks. And it’s growing at 3x the rate of the overall internet.Growth RateInternetSource: Nielsen, Global Faces and Networked Places, 2009
- 4. Fact #3Facebook has 400 million+ users. If it were a nation it would be the world’s third-largest country by population It took just 2 years to reach its first 50 million users. The internet took 5 years. Source: Nielsen, Global Faces and Networked Places, 2009
- 5. Fact #4Average U.S person spends 66 hours/month online7 are spent on FacebookMore than all the time spent on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft/Bing, Wikipedia and Amazon combined Source: www.census.gov
- 6. Fact #54.5 billion updates are posted to Facebook/week6.7 billion total world populationvs.Source: Nielsen, Global Faces and Networked Places, 2009 & The World Bank
- 7. Fact #6Facebook delivers more than 2x the upstream traffic to news and media sites than Google. RIP Google? Source: Hitwise 2/2/10
- 8. Fact #7Facebook ‘Like’ is a new index of the web, based on users’ choices.Facebook served 1 billion ‘Likes’ in the first 24 hours after its launch.Source: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook interviewed on the Wall Street Journal Blog
- 9. Fact #8100 million+ people have used Facebook Connect, to share details with other websites. Visitors are 200% more likely to log in to your website using Facebook Connect than any on site log in.Time to ditch your site’s login and use Facebook Connect?Source: Facebook Connect website
- 10. Fact #933% of Facebook users are fans of brands. That’s more than 132 million people. #1 reason for becoming a fan? To get special offers and promotions.Source: Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies, 3/10/10
- 11. Fact #1056% of web buyers cite the Facebook Wall and Fan pages as having significant influence over buying decisions.Source: Etailing group and Power reviews 2010 Social Shopping Study
- 12. Are you running two unconnected websites, one on Facebook? It’s time to leverage this powerhouse.Source: Etailing group and Power reviews 2010 Social Shopping Study
- 13. Find out more.Learn about Facebook Like and Connect and what they mean for ecommerce.www.seewhy.com/facebook