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Getting the Digits
Friday, April 17th, 2009
The world (we’re talking the normal adopters here, not early adopters) is finally seeing the writing on the wall: social media isn’t going away. The thing about the rest of the world is this: they love numbers. And we’re not talking about just liking numbers: they love numbers. So naturally, those in the know are starting to pump out some increasingly astonishing numbers about the social media space.
In keeping with that trend, here are some of the numbers that jumped out at us in the past week:
100 million – Monthly viewers for YouTube in the month of March. That’s a lot of people watching meaningful videos.
2:1 – The near-equivalent ratio of YouTube to Hulu. At their current growth rates, YouTube is growing at a pace that puts it doubling the size of Hulu.
8 – The time, in months, it’s taken Facebook to grow from 100 to 200 million users. That’s more users than the population of Brazil.
