Infographic: Social Media Statistics for 2013

As we kick off 2013 it’s good to recap some of the impressive stats from 2012. Here’s a great infographic that visualises a piece by the Huffington Post – 100 Social Media Statistics to kick off 2013. A few of the highlights are:

• 1 Million websites have integrated with Facebook
• 23% of users check Facebook 5 times or more daily
• 56% of customer tweets are being ignored
• 34% of marketers have generated leads on Twitter
• Google’s +1 button is used 5 million times a day
• Over 5 million are uploaded to Instagram every hour
• 80% of Pinterest users are female

It was another big year for social media platforms with the mature giants like Facebook continuing to grow and develop and a few of the newer players, Pinterest and Instagram, making their mark. It’s set to be an exciting year in this space. What are your predictions?

Thanks for the Infographic iStrategyLabs.

Infographic: 1 Billion Facebook Users

Just 4 years ago, in 2008, Facebook had just 100 million users, last week we saw the release of their first ever ad campaign,Things That Connect Us celebrating the billion fan milestone. Here’s a nice infographic that summarizes some of the facts behind this extraordinary platform:

• There have been 140.3 billion friend connections
• 219 billion photos have been uploaded onto Facebook
• The Facebook “like” button has been hit 1.13 trillion times
• 62.6 billion songs have been played
• The average age of a Facebook user is 22 years
• Facebook now has 600 million mobile users

These are some pretty impressive numbers. With just over 6 billion people left to sign up, what does the future hold for Facebook?

LG: Facebook in 3D

LG recently asked Perfect Fools to create an innovative new way of reinforcing the notion that the best things in life are even better in 3D.

Together, they transformed the Facebook Newsfeed in to 3D by creating the ’LG 3D Studio‘ which delves deeper in to the new possibilities with 3D viewing whilst also supporting the ‘Life is better in 3D’ campaign.

The web app can be used in 2D but is best viewed on a 3D cinema screen to get the full experience.

Every element of Facebook’s newsfeed was experimented with by Perfect Fools, including how the posts are displayed, navigation, depth, movement, colours, liking and representing content on screen. It transforms flat posts into dynamic blocks, with likes and comments setting the width and height of each stack.


LG are looking for this to be the first product out of the LG 3D Studio projects and will seek suggestions and feedback for future ideas via the 3D Newsfeed app itself and its Facebook page.

Michael Aneto, head of strategic planning at Perfect Fools, said about the app:

“We chose Facebook for the first experiment to make a statement with something universal, loved and fun.

The point of the experiments is to stimulate conversation and imagination so eventually when the target audience think of 3D, they think LG.”

What do you think? I’ve never seen a 3D Facebook newsfeed before so this can claim to be the first. I’m not sure whether it’s something i’d go back to after i’ve used it the first time though.