By the Numbers
Average number of followers a Twitter user has
126
according to a presentation by a Twitter employee over the summer, as reported by the Guardian
Yahoo’s traffic on the day of Michael Jackson’s death
16.4 million
unique visitors on the day of Jackson’s death, according to a company blog post. That’s the highest in the company’s history, beating election day’s 15.1 million visitors. Stats from across the Web here.
Gawker’s monthly pageviews
394,000,000
for the Gawker blog network in October 2009, according to a Twitter post from the company’s CEO
Cost to buy a story from a source
$163,273
or €110,000 from the UK’s Daily Telegraph to buy information that broke one of the country’s biggest government scandals in recent history
Adult social network users with MySpace profiles
50%
according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That’s compared to 22% for Facebook.
Twitter users under 25
16%
according to a Nielsen study released in July. That’s less than the percentage of people under 25 who are regular internet users, which Nielsen reports as 25%.
Internet time spent on social networks
17%
according to research from Nielsen.
Minutes spent on Facebook each day
8,000,000,000
worldwide, according to the company’s statistics
Video views per day on YouTube
1,000,000,000
as of October, according to a post in the company’s blog.
Text messages sent each day
4,100,000,000
according to newly released data from CTIA, a trade association for the wireless communications industry.
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