Social Media By the Numbers

• Jul 24th, 2009
• Posted by Cody
• Posted in Facebook, Social Media by the Numbers, Spring Creek Group, Twitter

Number of U.S. Presidential Press Conferences announced via Twitter:  1

Total estimated value of free media coverage given to Twitter in the past month alone:  $48,000,000

Year in which a mobile application maker predicts that the mobile application market will be “as big as internet”:  2020

Total number of people named Kelly Hildebrandt who met through Facebook and are now marrying each other:  2

Years of family history the two researched to ensure they were not, in fact, related:  250

Twitter’s percentage of growth from June 2008 to June 2009:  1,989%

Percentage of professional communicators who believe that Twitter is nothing more than a “fad”:  54

Number of employees in Best Buy’s brand new “Twelpforce”:  500

Minimum number of services that allow believers to tweet their prayers and have them placed in Jerusalem’s Western Wall:  1

Number of police officers needed to break up a party that was “escalated” through the use of Facebook:  70

Minimum number of analytics tools that will allow users to contrast the number mentions of their brand on Twitter with the number of mentions of defecation on Twitter:  1