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2,200 tweets are posted
580 users update their Facebook status
24 minutes of video is uploaded to YouTube
$20 is spent on virtual goods in Social GamingIf you printed each of these Tweets in 12 point Helvetica font and laid them end to end, the resulting stream of text would travel at 1,200 mph
Graph of top speeds:
Usain Bolt – 29.2 mph
Cheetah – 70 mph
Bugatti Veyron – 254 mph
Facebook Updates – 360 mph
Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk “Stealth Fighter” – 600mph
Tweets – 1,200 mph
If you saw every update posted, you would have to read…
3.7 million words per minute on Twitter
1 million words per minute on Facebook
To watch all of the video uploaded on YouTube, you would need…
1,440 screens playing videos continuously
If these were 32” flatscreen TVs, you could cover the face of a 30 story office building – (Picture of a large office building with the front covered in TVs. The YouTube logo covers the entire front of the building, with little parts of it broken up into the individual screens)
If you received all of the money from microtransactions in Social Gaming, you could buy…
A new Bugatti Veyron every day
A new $140,000 house every 2 hours
A 58” plasma screen TV every minute
Adoption rates of new social networks is accelerating:
It took LinkedIn 3.5 years to reach 10 million users
The same feat took Twitter just over 3 years
It took Facebook 2.5 years
Google+ did it in just 2 weeks
Graph of each mentioned network’s adoption rates:
LinkedIn: 42 months
Twitter: 40 months
Tumblr: 35 months
Facebook: 30 months
Google+: .5 months
The reach of social networks is spreading faster than any infectious disease in the history of mankind:
The Black Death killed 25 million people in 5 years, from 1347 to 1352. From 2005-2010, Facebook gained over 500 million users, more than the entire world population at the time of the Black Death.
