Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama!

BigFuel.com’s Report on Social Media

  • By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers 96% of them have joined a social network.
  • One out of 8 couples married in the US last year met via social media.
  • If facebook were a country it would be the world’s fourth largest between the United States and Indonesia.
  • The fastest growing segment on facebook is 55-65 year-old females.
  • Eighty percent of Twitter usage is on mobile devices people update anywhere, anytime imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
  • The second largest search engine in the world is YouTube.
  • There are over 200 000 000 blogs — 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily
  • Twenty five percent of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content.
  • Seventy eight percent of consumers trust peer recommendations. Only 14 % trust advertisements.
  • In the near future we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media.
  • More than 1.5 million pieces of content are shared on facebook daily.