As the Social Media Factory prepare for the year ahead many exciting movements are happening in the Social Media space. Already number of Twitter users in South Africa have increased and even youth are picking up on this trend (Teenager FaceBook status: Eish fb n its nonsense today, is it just me or does evrybody else also hav 2 keep loggin in every tym they click on sumthing?? nx, this is y we hav twitter, follow me ) A number of these have become evident amongst young people and with the following crazy Social Media statistics it is no surprise that the Social Media Factory has already started off well:

- FaceBook has over 350 million users registered globally with 2.5 million being in South Africa.
- 19% of FaceBook users access the social network via a mobile device.
- 35 Million users update their status daily via FaceBook
- Twitter has over 75 million users registered
- At the current rate Twitter could process up to 10 billion tweets in a year.

You can read more crazy Social Media stats by EConsultancy here.

Tags: FaceBook, Social Media, Social Media Factory, Twitter

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