Social Media Revolution – Facts and Figures (Updated) Ross | June 30th, 2011
A few years ago, Erik Qualman, the author of Socialnomics, produced a popular video highlighting the impressive facts and figures about the growing popularity of social media.
Erik updated that video in 2010 and has just released a third update (below) which shows the impressive dominance of social media across the world.
Some examples mentioned in the video:
- Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30 years old
- Facebook would be the third largest country in the world (by population)
- eReaders have surpassed traditional book sales
- Social gamers will buy $6 billion of virtual goods by 2013
- If Wikipedia were made into a book, it would be 2.25 million pages long.
Here’s the video with many more fascinating facts and figures:


