{"id":238,"date":"2010-02-01T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2010-03-01T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:56:09","slug":"facebook-user-statistics-jan-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/facebook-user-statistics-jan-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook user statistics (Jan 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In February 2010 Facebook exceeded 300 million users worldwide. It is not only the worlds largest social networking site but also second only to Google in terms of popularity and daily usage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/worldwide-facebook-users.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-241 aligncenter\" title=\"facebook users worldwide\" src=\"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/worldwide-facebook-users-400x231.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/worldwide-facebook-users-400x231.gif 400w, https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/worldwide-facebook-users.gif 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Approximately half of all active Facebook users log into their account on any given day. Over 55 million status updates are posted each day and more than 2.5 billion photos are uploaded to Facebook each month. And yet many marketeers still think as Facebook and social media marketing as a fringe activity in relation to more traditional marketing methods.<\/p>\n<table style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 310px; float: left;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #9fb6cd;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 4px;\" colspan=\"3\">10 Largest Countries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1.<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">United States<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">94,748,820<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2.<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">United Kingdom<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">22,261,080<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Turkey<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">14,215,880<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4.<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">France<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">13,396,760<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5.<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Canada<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">13,228,380<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6.<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Italy<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">12,581,060<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7.<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Indonesia<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">11,759,980<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8.<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Spain<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7,313,160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9.<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Australia<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7,176,640<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10.<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Philippines<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6,991,040<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>My message is this, social media is not fringe, it&#8217;s mainstream people. As the Americans say &#8220;get with the programme!&#8221; And if you are not convinced, at least do your homework and see for yourselves.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_243\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/uk-facebook-users-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-243\" title=\"uk-facebook-users-2\" src=\"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/uk-facebook-users-2-400x300.gif\" alt=\"UK Facebook user age split (source: Clicky Media)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/uk-facebook-users-2-400x300.gif 400w, https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/uk-facebook-users-2.gif 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK Facebook user age split (source: Clicky Media)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>411 links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook<\/strong> provides <a title=\"statistics from the Facebook press room\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/press\/info.php?statistics\">usage statistics<\/a> for its platform in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/press\/info.php?statistics\">press room<\/a> section of its website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CheckFacebook<\/strong> &#8211; a website that provides daily Facebook data: <a title=\"Check Facebook website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.checkfacebook.com\">http:\/\/www.checkfacebook.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Econsultancy &#8211; 20+ more mind-blowing social media statistics<\/strong>: <a title=\"20+ mindblowing social media statistics\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/sMuDU\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/sMuDU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2010 Facebook exceeded 300 million users worldwide. 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