The team over at JESS3, the company which originally designed Social Times, have released a new video with statistics about the internet. Whether it’s the 400 million Facebook users, or the billions of youtube videos streamed every day, the internet is a global phenomenon. As the internet grows, so too do the spectacular statistics about the size of the network. Check out a video of the stats below.
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Consumers spent more than five and a half hours on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter in Dec, 2009, according to a report by Nielsen. The amount of time spent on social media sites has increased by 82% from the same time last year, when users only spent three hours on social media sites each day.
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A growing number of young men in UK prefer checking emails and browsing through social media sites like Facebook over sex, according to a new study conducted in UK by Sparkler for Microsoft Advertising.
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Twitter users are now now sending 50 million tweets per day, which translates to an average of 600 tweets per second, according to new stats released Twitter.

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A new white paper, published by Merkle Inc., suggests that social media users are more likely to check their email inboxes than people who do not use social media. The study, conducted in Fall 2009, had several interesting findings. While many reports have suggested that Facebook and other social networks are replacements to email, this report would suggest that users are much more likely to use both products together.
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According to a new report published by Social Gold, 56% of virtual goods customers make repeat purchases.  This comes on the heels of their partnership with MiniClip.com, where Social Gold will be used as the virtual currency for the site’s 550 games and 57 million players.  The report also discusses the average spend per customer.  I’ve attached the Social Gold image below, which highlights some of the key statistics.
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A new study by PopCap Social Gaming Research, creators of Bejeweled, confirms that mothers are the primary players of social games. As we wrote in the past, middle-aged women are the core demographic of social gamers, and this survey confirms that 55% of gamers are women, aged 43 on average. However, there are some interesting facts about other games that social gamers enjoy, how often they log on and where they go for their games in the data.
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Repeated censorship of foreign-owned social networks like Twitter and Facebook by the Chinese government may be a large part of the reason that local Chinese networks are gaining in popularity among the millions of internet users in the country. Along with the recent threat by Google to pull its search from China altogether, there are indicators that Chinese internet users will be isolated from the networks and websites that European and North American users access most.
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The way it’s overtaken the TV newsrooms and celebrity gossip pages, you’d think that Twitter was the be-all-and-end-all of social media.  But a new report from the Pew Research Center cited in this Washington Post article says otherwise: teens are pretty ambivalent about using Twitter, with only 8 percent of those online reporting regular use of the social networking tool.
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2009 saw a tremendous increase in usage of Social Media sites like Twitter and Facebook, and could easily be termed as the Year of Social Media. This growth in the usage of social and collaboration platforms has led the enterprises to seriously consider using social platforms for business collaborations, according to Mark R. Gilbert, research vice president at Gartner Research.
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