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.