{"id":2925,"date":"2014-08-11T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2025-09-09T00:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:36:05","slug":"social-media-statistics-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/social-media-statistics-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email over the weekend promoting social media monitoring and other things that I don&#8217;t really need. Included in the email was some amazing statistics on the size of social media. I&#8217;ve always been a fan of social media personally and professionally. It is staggering to think how many people are on Facebook now. (That 6 Degrees of Separation theory is proving itself right.)<\/p>\n<table style=\"color: #000000; height: 284px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"505\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"color: #666666;\" width=\"64\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pub.vendasta.com\/l\/38752\/2014-08-06\/3fb25\/38752\/25366\/facebook.png\" alt=\"FaceBook\" title=\"\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #666666;\">Facebook has over\u00a0<b style=\"color: #000000;\">1.3 billion<\/b>\u00a0monthly active users<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"color: #666666;\" width=\"64\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pub.vendasta.com\/l\/38752\/2014-08-06\/3fb2c\/38752\/25372\/twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" title=\"\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #666666;\"><b style=\"color: #000000;\">6.5 million<\/b>\u00a0Twitter users<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"color: #666666;\" width=\"64\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pub.vendasta.com\/l\/38752\/2014-08-06\/3fb27\/38752\/25370\/linkedin.png\" alt=\"LinkedIn\" title=\"\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #666666;\">Nearly\u00a0<b style=\"color: #000000;\">315 million<\/b>\u00a0people on Linkedin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"color: #666666;\" width=\"64\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pub.vendasta.com\/l\/38752\/2014-08-06\/3fb29\/38752\/25368\/foursquare.png\" alt=\"Foursquare\" title=\"\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #666666;\">Over\u00a0<b style=\"color: #000000;\">50 million<\/b>\u00a0people use Foursquare\/Swarm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Another thing I learned from this \u2013 check your facts. I was quite surprised that Twitter only had 6.5 million users. With all of companies and \u00a0TV shows utilizing Twitter, I was dumbfounded that they had such a small reach. A quick Google search pulls statistics in the range of 250 million active users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email over the weekend promoting social media monitoring and other things that I don&#8217;t really need. Included in the email was some amazing statistics on the size of social media. I&#8217;ve always been a fan of social media personally and professionally. It is staggering to think how many people are on Facebook<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/social-media-statistics-2014\/\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}