• More than 400 million active users
• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
• Average user has 130 friends
• People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook

Activity on Facebook

• There are over 160 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups and events)
• Average user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events
• Average user creates 70 pieces of content each month
• More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.

Global Reach

• More than 70 translations available on the site
• About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
• Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application

Platform

• More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
• Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
• More than 550,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
• More than one million websites have integrated with Facebook Platform
• More than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month
• Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook

Mobile

• There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
• People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
• There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

Taken from Facebook’s Statistics Page.

LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman and Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone discuss the great potential of the integration between their companies. “The business use case of Twitter is turning out to be very important, and more and more people are finding that the persona that they create for themselves on the web is part of their resume…”

LinkedIn and Twitter have had a major impact on the business world over the last year. These days it seems like running a successful business includes have a successful social marketing strategy. As a consulting company, we know these sites allow you to be everywhere your potential clients are. We’ve been working on our own strategy and talking with our own clients about theirs in order to learn the best ways to use these tools at no cost other than time.

Exciting webinars and programs are in the wings for Jennifer Brown Consulting, so stay tuned!

Here is one more video featuring Reid Hoffman we think you will find helpful:

Times like this force us to step back and look at our own updates, and to think about the people we are connected to, if only to wonder that tried and true social networking question: What are you up to?

This afternoon, Twitter seems to be down or at least not functioning. Meanwhile, Facebook is eerily more quiet than it would usually be during a week day. Something must be going on out there on these web service servers, because there are pages that aren’t loading, and only the tiniest trickle of information seems to be coming through at the moment.  What exactly is “my status”?

Twitter asks us every day: “What are you doing?”
And Facebook takes a more cerebral approach with, “What’s on your mind?”

This gets us thinking of course. We react, and by force of habit we now know how to type updates, and send out information to our followers and friends through micro-blogging. But what are we adding to the big picture? We decided to take a look at our own blog for starters. Using a web application, we analyzed the wording in our blog and generated an image out of the listed word count. The image above shows you the words we’ve used over and over as we reach out to the web. We’ve noticed quite a lot just on first glance, and we’ve especially learned something about the words that are hiding there among the others: we aren’t mentioning some of the important things enough! This now has become a learning tool for us, and we hope for you as well.

So, this afternoon, JBC would like to ask you some new questions for you to answer in your Twitter feed, or your Facebook status:

What are the concepts that are important to your business?
What information are you putting out on the Internet about your company?
About yourself?

What about the faces and names you’ve connected with:

Who is your favorite person you’ve connect with on a social network and why?
Is there anyone there you may never have heard of if it weren’t for these networking opportunities?

We’re looking for stories about the way social networking has influenced your business or your career recently.  Let us know if you have any amazing stories about interaction, connections, or the ways in which your network surprised you.  Email us (info@jenniferbrownconsulting.com) or send us a comment on our blog to share your story with us!

Just a quick post to say thank you to everyone who is following us, RT-ing (re-tweeting) our tweets, and sending us messages on Twitter! Jennifer Brown Consulting is proud to be a leader in the corporate social media space and its thanks to all of our amazing followers that we’ve gained insights, shared value, and made some strategic connections on the web. If you haven’t already gotten on board, please sign up for a Twitter account today and add Jennifer Brown Consulting.

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