Social media usage is widespread, with 3 out of 4 Americans using social technology. Visiting social sites is now the fourth most popular online activity. Facebook has over 500 million active users who spend an average of 7 hours per month on the site. On average, 70 million tweets are sent per day. Most online shoppers use search engines to find product information, with 70% of searches being made at the category level. Over 22 billion searches occur monthly in the US, with 131 billion global searches monthly.

1. Searches
Social
Retail
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2. Social Media Stats
3 out 4 Americans use Social Technology (Nov
2009)
Visiting Social sites is now the 4th popular online
activity ahead of email (Sep 2009)
500 million active users on Facebook – 7 hours
per month per user (Jul 2010)
70 million – Average number of tweets per day
(Jun 2010)
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3.  86% of Searchers use a search engine
for product / shopping information
 70% of these queries are performed at
the category level
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4.  22.7 Billion Searches Monthly in USA
 131 Billion Searches Monthly Global
Over 5 millions (US) searches will take place in the next 10 minutes
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6. $1.4 Trillion
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