Dialing up Stats: Gary Hayes's Social Web Counter

So, unless I'm missing something, Gary Hayes has provided us with the first real organized statistical perspective of the social web. In one of the coolest things I've seen in the last quarter, Gary's The Social Web counter (find it here http://www.personalizemedia.com/the-count/) takes a birds eye view of the vast and rapidly expanding social business universe :



It's plugged into this blog's sidebar for good, as a reminder of:

1. The mashability of all things web; and,
2. Just how big the social and mobile web economy is and continues to become.

Plus, it's just plain fun to click from "Now" to "+1 Day" to "+1 Year" and watch the "RED SHIFT" of the social universe...

As he says at http://www.personalizemedia.com/the-count/

The social web has exploded in the last year and below are some of the key data points that the ‘Gary’s Social Media Count’ is based on (many will be updated!).

• 20 hours of video uploaded every minute onto YouTube (source YouTube blog Aug 09)
• Facebook 600k new members per day, and photos, videos per month, 700mill & 4 mill respectively (source Inside Facebook Feb 09)
• Twitter 18 million new users per year & 4 million tweets sent daily (source TechCrunch Apr 09)
• iPolicy UK – SMS messaging has a bright future (Aug 09)
• 900 000 blogs posts put up every day (source Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008)
• YouTube daily, 96 million videos watched, $1mill bandwidth costs (source Comscore Jul 06 !)
• UPDATE: YouTube 1Billion watched per day SMH (2009)- counter updated!
• Second Life 250k virtual goods made daily, text messages 1250 per second (source Linden Lab release Sep 09)
• Money – $5.5 billion on virtual goods (casual & game worlds) even Facebooks gifts make $70 million annually (source Viximo Aug 09)
• Flickr has 73 million visitors a month who upload 700 million photos (source Yahoo Mar 09)
• Mobile social network subscribers – 92.5 million at the end of 2008, by end of 2013 rising to between 641.6-873.1 million or 132 mill annually (source Informa PDF)
• SMS – Over 2.3 trillion messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008 (source Everysingleoneofus sms statistics)

He's also developed one for the Mobile Web:



Excellent stuff, Gary.

Keep mashing n mashing! And, tell me what you think about all of this.

LP