2008 Social Media Statistics Report

Article by: Lani Rosales on January 26, 2009

We’ve combed the land of statistics high and low as 2008 closes and companies go public with their data and we’ve discovered that 2008 was a year of explosive social networking growth.

We learned that Twitter grew 752%, Facebook has 150 million users, YouTube now hosts 44% of all online video, LinkedIn users have awesome household incomes, Flickr has over 3 billion images and that one million blog posts are written every day across the globe.

Check out our FULL REPORT which covers 2008 statistics for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Wikipedia and blogs.

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About the author

Lani Rosales

Co-founder of New Media Lab and new media consultant, Lani is a native Austinite (although she spent time in Mexico and Spain). She studied English Literature at the University of Texas and has an extensive background in marketing and brand building, and has lived and breathed social media for years. She's an avid Twitter user and is an influential New Media advocate.

One Response to “2008 Social Media Statistics Report”

Is Twitter a Chat Room? | Real Estate Magazine - Real Estate Opinion Column - AgentGenius
Jan 26, 2009

[...] that bridged all others and was growing like crazy wouldn’t it be prudent to look into it? The 2008 social media statistics were just released: Twitter grew 752% in 2008 which is the equivalent of 400lb guy losing 350lbs- it’s [...]

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