Just for fun, here are some web 2.0 ‘fast facts’ that demonstrate the increasing popularity of online social technologies both in Australia and worldwide:
- 76% of online Australian adults regularly use social technologies (Source: Forrester)
- Approximately 30% of Australians have their own blog (Source: Universal McCann)
- Australia is currently the fourth biggest Twitter-using country (Source: Sysomos)
- There are around 37,500 new blog posts per hour (or 10.4 new posts per second) (Soure: Technorati)
- More than 5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day worldwide (Source: Facebook)
- 13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube per minute (Source: Google)
- There are around 3 million new Twitter messages or ‘tweets’ per day (Source: TechCrunch)
- The total time spent on social media sites has increased 82% in the last year (Source: Nielsen)
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