Today’s generation has an eye for social media fashion. It looks forward to entrust gen next the high-end technology and the products channelized through internet. But the craze for social media is at the peak. Catch a glance over the top five social networking sites below. The interesting facts associated with them will surely drop jaws:
1. Facebook:
Year of Inception: 4th February, 2004
Founder: Mark Zuckerberg & his college mate Eduardo Saverin
Interesting Facts:
• Registers 600,000 hacking attempts per day.
• An average figure of FB users in the US spends 40 minutes a day.
• Al Pacino was the first face flashed on it.
• FB is accessed 14 times a day by the smartphone users.
• It can sneak peak the site you visited before and after logging in
• Mark Zuckerberg suffers red-green colour blindness
• It, along with Twitter and the New York Times, has been blocked in China since 2009. But 95 million users from this country use it.
• Mark can’t be blocked on FB.
• It earns revenue worth US$5.85 from the US
• The original name coined for the ‘Like’ button was ‘Awesome’.
• 8.7 FB users are fake accounts. This is common practice to fetch more traffic on FB post.
• 1.8 million new ‘Likes’ are added to it every single minute.
• It spends approx.$30 million a month on hosting.
• M ark Zuckerberg’s monthly salary is $1 as its CEO.
• The typed status in its ‘Status Update Box’ is received by its server without clicking on post tab.
• It purchased Whatsapp in $19 billion in 2014.
• It offers 4 months paid parental leave to its employees who become father for the 1st time.
2. Twitter
Year of Inception: July 2006
Founder: Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Noah Glass
Interesting Facts:
• Originally, it was named as Twttr.
• Every week, it registers 1 billion tweets.
• Every second records 10 tweets.
• 32% of all netizens use twitter
• A tweet user tweets 307 times a day on an average.
• Year 2012 registered 1 million accounts on it every day.
• Lady Gaga is the nominated as the most popular twitterer with 33 million followers.
• The number of Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry’s followers is more than that of the total population of Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Canada, Argentina and Egypt.
• 340 million tweets are tweeted every day out of which 332 million are active.
• 60% twitter users are females.
• Monthly, its users spend 21 minutes on it.
• McDonalds appoints 10 employees to handles its twitter account.
• 832% more tweets that articles and images are received by an infographic on it.
• People can use more than 25 languages, including Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu and Arabic, on it.
3. LinkedIn
Year of Inception: 5 May, 2003
Founder: Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly, and Jean-Luc Vaillant
Interesting Facts:
• It has 433 million users in all.
• Every second registers 2 new entries to it.
• There are 128 million LinkedIn users from the US alone.
• Monthly unique visits on it are 106 million for which social media marketing tipsare called.
• 200 countries and territories are linked to it.
• 70% of its users are non-Americans
• The searches for statistical analysis and data mining skills are the hottest of all favourites on it.
• 45 billion page views are recorded in 2016.
• 56% of its users are males while 44% are females.
• On an average, a user spends 17 minutes on it monthly.
• 1 billion endorsements are recorded on it in 2013.
4. Google+
Year of Inception: 15th December, 2011
Founder: Alphabet Inc
Interesting Facts:
• Originally, it was introduced as Google Buzz.
• There are 500 million users of it in all.
• It bags the 2nd largest social media platform.
• Currently 350 million remain active on it daily.
• It attracted 10 million users after 2 weeks of its launch.
• 625,000 new users are added to it every day.
• 70% of the total brands are associated with it.
• Engineer fraternity is its biggest user.
• 68% users are male while 32% are female users.
• On an average, its user spends 12 minutes per day.
• Around 1.5 billion images are uploaded on it every week.
• Search engine offers higher ranks to the websites promoted through G+.
5. YouTube
Year of Inception: 14th February, 2005
Founder: Coby Wiechmann and her husband Jesse Jones
Interesting Facts:
• 1/3 of the world population is on the YouTube.
• It records 400 hours of videos uploaded every minute.
• Its half of the traffic is generated through mobile/smartphones.
• On an average, a user spends 40 minutes in watching videos on it.
• It outreaches in the US, especially between the age group of 18 and 49, as being the most famous network.
• A video called ‘Hello’ received the fastest views, i.e.100 million, in a week.
• Its 80 % users are non-Americans.
• The most favourite video on it is ‘Gangnam Style’ which has 2.5 billion views. It passed its original count limit, i.e. 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.
• ‘Me At the Zoo’ was the first video.