Facebook now commands more than 800 million active users, adding more than 200 million of those in the last year alone. Twitter now boasts 100 million active users, about a fifth of whom are in the USA. LinkedIn has 64 million users in North America alone, and used this tally to launch a successful IPO back in May. Moreover, these social platforms also now play a major role in the way that we receive and share news, as well as becoming an important, on-the-spot source of news themselves. Internet marketing firm Dream Systems Media took data provided by AdAge and converted the numbers into infographic, which takes a closer looker at today's social media statistics.

Share ► Retweet DM CONFIDENTIAL - According to the "2012 Marketing Trends Survey" from StrongMail, conducted by Zoomerang, email marketing and social media are set to see the biggest budget increases by marketers in 2012.  The survey was conducted from Nov. 16-29, and got responses from 939 business leaders regarding their planned marketing budgets, priorities and challenges for next year. It also looked at the top email marketing tactics to be used this holiday season. According to the survey, 51 percent of respondents expect their marketing budgets to increase in 2012, while 8 percent expect them to decrease and 41 percent expect to maintain current spend levels. When asked to indicate the progr...