Social networking is rapidly taking over the world!

Want to know some interesting facts involving Facebook and Twitter and all the other social networking sites, then look no further!


There are more than 400 million active users, that's 6% of the world are currently using Facebook to communicate between themselves. Facebook was created in 2004, so that's 1% of the world signing up to Facebook per year approximately! 3% of the worlds population sign in EVERYDAY. Facebook has announced that 500 billion minutes are spent on Facebook per months and the average user has an impressive 130 friends. Facebook has announced that everyone on their network is linked together somehow via friends lists.

There are over 160 million objects that people interact with including pages, groups and events. The average user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events and the average user creates 70 pieces of content each more. An incredible 25 billion pieces of content including web links, news stories, blog, posts etc shared each month.

Facebook has been made highly accessible to the entire world by allowing 70 translations to be available. 70% of Facebook users are outside the US and over 300,000 users helped translate the site through translations application.

More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
More than 550,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
More than 250,000 websites have integrated with Facebook Platform
More than 100 million Facebook users engage with Facebook on external websites every month
Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook

Twitter is emerging to be the latest social networking phenomenon, celebrities across the world are using it to continuously post what they're thinking and what they're doing. Ashton Kutcher is currently the most followed celebrity with a staggering 4,884,693 followers.

Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users, with 300k joining everyday, approximately 60% of them are coming from outside the USA, which is still less than Facebooks dominance. However they do receive 180 million unique visitors per month. Amazinglt since Blackberry application was launched there has been an increase in 7-8% of new signs. Users search for 600 million queries a day on Twitter which makes it the most searched website in the world to date. Similar to Facebook 37% of users Tweet using their phones.