The Power of Social Media Sites

Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln and MySpace - Who doesn’t know any of these? Most probably know at least one. Did you know that there are 550 million users of Facebook, 98 million users of Twitter, 67 million users of MySpace and 41 million users of Linkedln? Interesting isn’t it? But did you also know that in the 3rd quarter of this year, the number of users have declined on each of these social media sites, except for Twitter. In the case of Facebook, the number of users has dropped from 550 million to 540 million. The number of Twitter users did not drop, however, their numbers didn’t make a drastic increase either, from 96 million users in the 2nd quarter it only gained 2 million users in the 3rd quarter of this year.

It is also interesting to know that each of these social media sites have different functions. Facebook is said to be more of a social sharing site, while Twitter is more of a learning network. MySpace is more of a social relationship network while Linkedln is more of a business-related site. For more interesting facts about social media sites, click here.

Until next time,
Jamie