INTERNET STATS!

Periodically, we look around the web and bring you interesting Internet stats useful for digital marketing planning. Here is our latest set of statistics:

Twitter

• 22,481,568 monthly unique visitors (Source: Compete, November 2009)
• This is a 2.43% decline in monthly unique visitors over October 2009 (Source: Compete, November 2009)
• 131 million monthly site visits overall (Source: Compete, November 2009)
• 53% of Twitter.com visitors are female (Source: Quantcast, December 2009)
• 44% of Twitter.com visitors are between the ages of 18-34 (Source: Quantcast, December 2009)
• Twitter.com visitors are most likely to also visit TweetPhoto.com (Source: Quantcast, December 2009)
• Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) is the most followed Twitter feed with 4,238,623 followers (Source: Twitterholic, December 2009)

Facebook

• 350 million+ active users (Source: Facebook, December 2009)
• Approximately 175 million log in to their Facebook account in every day (Source: Facebook, December 2009)
• More than 35 million users update their status every day (Source: Facebook, December 2009)
• There are more than 55 million status updates every day (Source: Facebook, December 2009)
• More than 700,000 local businesses have Facebook pages (Source: Facebook, December 2009)
• The average user spends 55 minutes on Facebook daily (Source: Facebook, December 2009)
• More than 65 million people access Facebook via their mobile device (Source: Facebook, December 2009)
• More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect (Source: Facebook, December 2009)
• People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile users (Source: Facebook, December 2009)

Mobile

• There will be approximately 1.2 mobile devices sold in 2009 (Source: Mobile Marketing Watch, December 2009)
• Mobile device sales are expected to double by 2014 (Source: Mobile Marketing Watch, December 2009)
• Mobile app downloads are to reach $5 billion by 2014 (Source: Fierce Developer, December 2009)
• The typical U.S. mobile subscriber sends and receives more SMS text messages than telephone calls (Source: Nielsen, September 2009)
• The average mobile customer sent or received 357 text messages per month (Source: Nielsen, September 2009)
• The average consumer spends 3 minutes watching mobile video each week (Source: Nielsen, December 2009)
• Apple is on track to sell over 40 million iPhone and iPod touches this year worldwide. (Source: AdMob, December 2009)
• There are more than 100,000 iPhone apps (Source: iPhone Blog, November 2009)
• There have been more than 2 billion iPhone app downloads from the iPhone store (Source: CNET, September 2009)
• Apple is on pace to sell over 50 million iPhones by September 2011 (Source: iPhone Buzz, September 2009)

Online Video

• YouTube has more than 85.6 million monthly unique visitors (Source: Compete, November 2009)
• YouTube has more than 517,614,553 monthly visits overall (Source: Compete, November 2009)
• Since July 2009, YouTube users can upload 3D videos (Source: Wikipedia, July 2009)
• Roughly 10 billion videos are served by YouTube monthly (Source: comScore, September 2009)
• 81.6 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience views online video (Source: comScore, September 2009)
• The average online video viewer consumes 9.7 hours of video (Source: comScore, September 2009)

Related posts:

1. Internet Stats – September 2009 Edition
2. Internet Stats – August 2009 Edition
3. One Billion Internet Users!
4. Internet Marketing Trends for 2009
5. Top Blog Posts of 2009

Tags: facebook, internet statistics, internet stats, mobile, mobile web, online video, twitter, youtube

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