{"id":18907,"date":"2013-12-04T03:20:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T01:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18907"},"modified":"2013-12-04T03:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T01:20:34","slug":"10-not-so-surprising-social-media-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/04\/10-not-so-surprising-social-media-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"10 (not so) surprising social media statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fast Company shares the 10 surprising social media statistics that will make you rethink your social strategy<\/a>. \u00a0I wouldn’t go as far as saying that all of them are really all that surprising, but they are mostly interesting. \u00a0Here they are in a nutshell:<\/p>\n

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  1. The fastest growing demographic on Twitter is the 55-64 year age bracket.<\/li>\n
  2. 189 million of Facebook’s users are “mobile only”.<\/li>\n
  3. YouTube reaches more US adults aged 18-34 than any cable network.<\/li>\n
  4. Every second two new members join LinkedIn.<\/li>\n
  5. Social media has overtaken port as #1 activity on the web.<\/li>\n
  6. LinkedIn has a lower percentage of active users than Pinterest, Google+, Twitter and Facebook.<\/li>\n
  7. 93% of marketers use social media for business.<\/li>\n
  8. 25% of smartphone owners ages 18-44 say they can’t recall the last time their smartphone wasn’t next to them.<\/li>\n
  9. Even though 62% of marketers blog or plan to blog in 2013, only 9% of US marketing companies employ a full-time blogger.<\/li>\n
  10. 25% of Facebook users don’t bother with privacy settings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Read the whole thing<\/a> for more details, links, stats, visualization, and ideas on how to utilize this information.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

    Fast Company shares the 10 surprising social media statistics that will make you rethink your social strategy. \u00a0I wouldn’t go as far as saying that all of them are really all that surprising, but they are mostly interesting. \u00a0Here they are in a nutshell: The fastest growing demographic on Twitter is the 55-64 year age … Continue reading 10 (not so) surprising social media statistics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[1968,2271,2860,2895,1290,1141,1117,1152,1041,1111],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-business","tag-facebook","tag-google-plus","tag-linkedin","tag-marketing","tag-mobile","tag-research","tag-social-networks","tag-statistics","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t