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August 2010 Facebook stats now available, click here >>



Facebook numbers continue to grow in the United Kingdom, with over 27 million users now profiled on the site and with it sitting as the UK’s second most popular website, just behind leading search engine Google. Traffic going to Facebook has increased by 10% over the past 3 months showing that user loyalty is still on the up. Traffic to Google (UK) has increased by 6.5% – will we be seeing Facebook numbers going above those of Google again >>?

Some more statistics and demographic breakdowns for all things Facebook in the UK follow below.

UK Facebook User Gender Split

UK Facebook Age Split

UK Facebook Age and Gender Split

Here at Clicky Media, we provide a whole variety of Facebook & Social Media Marketing services including Facebook Advertising >> and Facebook Page Design >>. Experts in promoting brands through Social Media and other online mediums. For further information please visit the Social Media Marketing section on our website >>. Alternatively, please speak to one of our professionals – 0845 257 1225 or email info@clickymedia.co.uk.

Sources: Facebook, Alexa

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August 2010 Facebook stats now available, click here >>

JUNE 2010 Facebook User Statistics, now available click here >>

Here it is, our latest Facebook statistics and demographics update and the world’s most popular social networking site continues to grow around the world and even further here in the UK.

With the recent news that Bebo may be closed down in the not too distant future and the numbers continue to fall on MySpace, Facebook has continued to dominate the market.

UK Facebook Statistics

As ever, the number of Facebook users continues to grow here in the UK, with now over 25 million active accounts. The rate of increase is not as significant as the rises in 2009 but by no means has the website stagnated. Most importantly, the statistics continue to improve on website usage and time on site.

Here are some more interesting statisitics and demographic breakdowns for all things Facebook worldwide, in Europe and in the UK.

Worldwide Facebook Growth

Facebook users in Europe

UK Facebook User Gender Split

UK Facebook Age Split

UK Facebook Age and Gender Split

At Clicky Media we offer a wide range of Facebook Marketing Services including Facebook advertising and Facebook Page Design. We specialise in promoting brands through social media and online. For further information please visit our social media marketing section on our website. Alternatively, please speak to one of our professionals – 0845 257 1225 or email info@clickymedia.co.uk.

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Twitter have today announced we are soon to break the 50,000,000 tweets-a-day mark which just underlines the massive growth the micro-blogging system has seen in the past 2 years.

Twitter HQ announced “Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day—that’s an average of 600 tweets per second. (Yes, we have TPS reports.)”

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August 2010 Facebook stats now available, click here >>

June 2010 Facebook Stats now available. click here >>

April 2010 Facebook stats now available, click here >>

Facebook, the worlds most popular social networking site continues to grow in 2010. Following the announcement that the site had reached over 350 million worldwide users towards the end of 2009, user numbers have continued to increase as the social networking giants continue to dominate the market. Below are some interesting Facebook Statistics and Demographics for our first update in 2010.

Facebook Worldwide Stats

The number of Facebook users is now over 360 million and growing across the world. Over 70% of Facebook users are now outside of the United States. Below displays Facebook’s popularity by Continent.

Interesting Facebook User Statistics

Around half of all active Facebook users log into their account on any given day. More than 55 million status updates are posted each day and more than 2.5 billion photos uploaded to Facebook each month.

Facebook Pages and Facebook Mobile

We thought, you might also like some information this time with regards to Facebook Pages. As the number of users continue to grow, so does the interest brands have in Facebook and over the past 12 months the number of Facebook Pages and groups have grown dramatically. There are now more than 1.6 million active Facebook Fan Pages which have over 5.3 billion fans. The average users becomes a fan of two pages per month.
There is no doubt that Facebook can contribute a large proportion of its usage statistics to mobile devices and social media on the go. There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and furthermore the use of Facebook by the 46.3m Opera Mini mobile users rose 600% last year research  by Opera revealed global revealed. It now means that Facebook takes the number one spot from Russian Social Network Vkontakte for being the most popular mobile social network.

UK Facebook Statistics

The number of Facebook users continues to grow here in the UK, with over 23 million active Facebook users. The rate of increase may have slowed slightly over the past couple of months but overall user figures continue to rise.

Facebook UK Demographics

At Clicky Media we offer a wide range of Facebook Marketing Services including Facebook advertising and Facebook Page Design. We specialise in promoting brands through social media and online. For further information please visit our social media marketing section on our website. Alternatively, please speak to one of our professionals – 0845 257 1225 or email info@clickymedia.co.uk.

Sources: Facebook, CheckFacebook, Facebakers and NMA.

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April 2010 Facebook stats now available, click here >>

JANUARY 2010 Facebook stats now available >>

There are now over 23 million active Facebook users in the UK according to the Social Ads platform.

Facebook has grown massively over the past 2 years, with the UK usage figures growing by over 13 million since January 2008. Something that is particularly interesting is that Facebook user numbers in the UK have steadily grown at a very similar rate for the past 6 months and from July 2009 user numbers have grown by around one million users per month.

We have also conducted further research into Facebook user stats and Facebook user demographics in the UK.

UK Facebook User age distribution demographics

Gender Split

Relationship Status

On a worldwide basis, Facebook have recently updated their stats which make for very interestig reading!

• More than 350 million active users

• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day

• More than 35 million users update their status each day

• More than 55 million status updates posted each day

• More than 2.5 billion photos uploaded to the site each month

• More than 3.5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week

• More than 3.5 million events created each month

• More than 1.6 million active Pages on Facebook

• More than 700,000 local businesses have active Pages on Facebook

• Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans

Sources: Facebook

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