subject: Some Statistics On Social Media And Web 2.0 [print this page] Social media is a concept that has changed the way people communicate. As a result of its popularity, social media has become an integral part of a person's life. In fact, for some people, if you are not on any social network, you are not a part of the online world. Web 2.0, on the other hand, is just as popular a concept as the media, especially since it is basically responsible for the environment where social networks move.
Web 2.0 represents a venue or platform where people can share information, opinion and even their expertise or knowledge to different people across the world. It functions through interactive web applications and works well for web-based communities like blogs and social networking sites. This is why Web 2.0 and social medium are connected.
As proof of the popularity of both social networking and web 2.0, staggering statistics were gathered in the early part of 2009. The statistics support the fact that more and more people are now into them.
(All the figures shown here are as of the beginning of 2009)
* Google has roughly two billion searches everyday.
* Google's index has around one billion unique URLs.
* There are more than 100 million You Tube videos that are viewed daily.
* You Tube's bandwidth costs was estimated at about $1 million on a daily basis.
* In one day, more or less 346 million people, from different parts of the world, read blogs.
* In 24 hours, an average of around 900,000 blogs are posted.
* Active Internet users make up a big number of regular blog visitors at 77%.
* Approximately 81 different languages are used in blogs.
* Facebook, in the early part of 2009, had more or less 200 million users who were active.
* Of this 200 million, an estimated 100 million users go online every single day.
* Twitter is also very popular, with more than one billion Tweets.
* Digg, on the other hand, had visits from around 236 million people in 2008.
With these numbers, it is not anymore difficult to imagine how strong both of them are. Over the years, technology experts will continue to find new ways to connect people, and Web 2.0 may be long forgotten by then; or perhaps social media would be an old issue by then. Today, however, and in the days and months to come, Web 2.o and social media will be what we need to stay connected.
