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Shocking Stats and Amazing Statistics

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Americans spend more time on social media than any other major Internet activity,

including email.

74% of customers rely on Social Media to influence their purchase decision.

Only 33% of Americans have ever followed a brand in social media.

Facebook has 1.35 billion monthly active users & over 50 million facebook pages.

500 Million tweets are sent per day.

200 Million active users on Instagram.

400 Million Snapchat snaps sent per day.

6 Billion hours of video watched on YouTube per month.

More than 2 users sign up on LinkedIn every second.

There are over 39 million students & recent grads on LinkedIn.

In the next 5 years 21% of marketing budgets will be spent on Social Media.

Half of Americans get news digitally…especially younger Americans.

59% of journalists are tweeting.

80% have sourced stories on social media.

Sharing news content is expected to be the one factor that impacts news the most in the

next decade.

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