Social Media Facts

There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

At its peak in April 2008, MySpace boasted over 115 million monthly visitors. Were it a country, it would have been roughly the 10th largest in the world, exceeding the population of Mexico at the time.

Over 350 million people worldwide meet research criteria for Facebook addiction, a behavioral pattern studied by psychologists but not yet recognized as an official mental health disorder.

You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.

On 2nd Nov 2017, President Trump's Twitter account was deactivated for 11 minutes by a departing Twitter employee.

After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy again".

There's an internet-enabled vest called 'Like-A-Hug' that inflates to give you a physical hug sensation every time a Facebook friend likes your status.

In 2011, more than a third of all US divorce filings contained the word 'Facebook'.

The co-founder and CEO of SnapChat, 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, turned down an offer of $3 billion from Facebook and then a $4 billion bid from Google.

In 2012, Walmart ran a Facebook contest to send Pitbull to the store with the most votes. The internet hijacked it and voted for a tiny Walmart in Kodiak, Alaska — a remote island only reachable by plane or boat. Everyone expected him to back out. He didn’t. He flew to Alaska, performed for the whole town, took photos with fans, and called it "the greatest thing ever."

In 2005, graffiti artist David Choe was hired by Sean Parker to paint murals inside Facebook's first office in Palo Alto. He was offered $60,000 in cash. He took stock options instead. When Facebook went public in 2012, his shares were worth approximately $200 million.