Personal Learning Networks or Micro Social Networking
2012 Social Media Statistics
These figures reveal the huge black hole that our time disappears into when we visit Facebook, Twitter or YouTube or other social media sites.
- One in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook ( This number is calculated by dividing the planets 6.94 billion people by Facebook’s 750 million users)
- People spend 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
- Each Facebook user spends on average 15 hours and 33 minutes a month on the site
- More than 250 million people access Facebook through their mobile devices
- More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook
- 30 billion pieces of content is shared on Facebook each month
- 300,000 users helped translate Facebook into 70 languages
- People on Facebook install 20 million “Apps” every day
- YouTube has 490 million unique users who visit every month (as of February 2011)
- YouTube generates 92 billion page views per month (These YouTube stats don’t include videos viewed on phones and embedded in websites)
- Users on YouTube spend a total of 2.9 billion hours per month (326,294 years)
- Wikipedia hosts 17 million articles
- Wikipedia authors total over 91,000 contributors
- People upload 3,000 images to Flickr (the photo sharing social media site) every minute
- Flickr hosts over 5 billion images
- 190 million average Tweets per day occur on Twitter (May 2011)
- Twitter is handling 1.6 billion queries per day
- Twitter is adding nearly 500,000 users a day
- Google+ has more than 25 million users
- Google+ was the fastest social network to reach 10 million users at 16 days (Twitter took 780 days and Facebook 852 days)
Read more at http://www.jeffbullas.com/2011/09/02/20-stunning-social-media-statistics/#C0TXcPELzjiPKYd5.99
Source: The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic
Social Networking in the Classroom - PBS Video
The Facts and Figures from Facebook - 2012
- Monthly active users now total 901 million (up from 680 million a year ago)
- One in 7.7 people in the world have a Facebook account.
- Daily active users are up to 526 million (up from 372 million last year)
- Monthly mobile users now total 488 million
- Eighty-three million monthly active users accessed Facebook solely from mobile in the month ending March 31, 2012
- 300 million photos are uploaded to the site each day
- 3.2 billion Likes and Comments are posted daily
- Hosts 125 billion friendships
- Revenue for the first quarter of 2012 was $1.058 billion, up from $731 million last year
- Facebook expects to raise $5 billion in its IPO
- Facebook’s estimated value will be close to $100 billion after the IPO
- Facebook paid Instagram the equivalent of $1.01 billion for its business
- Facebook will pay Instagram a $200 million termination fee if government authorities prevent the acquisition from being completed
- If Facebook increased its current revenue rate it will make from $4.69 to $4.81 on each of its 901 million users each year
- Facebook hosts 42 million “Pages” with 10 or more likes
- There are currently 9 million Facebook “apps”
- Facebook owns 774 of its own US patents
- Facebook bought an additional 650 patents from Microsoft for $550 million
- Zynga the online games company (which includes Farmville) contributes 15% of Facebook revenue
- Facebook currently has 3,539 full-time employees
Read more at http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/04/30/20-interesting-facts-figures-and-statistics-revealed-by-facebook/#HzX54Ade5l1T7TfP.99
Great wiki on Personal Learning Networks
Twitter
Twitter is 140 character mini-blog that answers the question "What are you doing?". Each post is known as a tweet and users 'follow' the tweets of their network. Often the tweet describe what an individual is doing, or working on. However there are many more possibilities, tweets can be responses to other tweets, questions to your twitter network, links to interesting resources. It is really hard to wrap one's head around until you start tweeting and build a personal network.
This is what Twitter looks like!
Twitter Cheat sheet
I use a desktop application that brings my tweets to my desktop without needing to be at Twitter.com. It is called Twirl. As someone sends me a Tweet it appears on the bottom right hand corner of my screen. It remains there for a specific amount of time before disappearing.
Twitter used by De Forest High School to announce school closings
Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class -- via Twitter
Sample educational use of Twitter: follow NASA projects like marsphoenix
Edmodo is a Twitter for Education
Edmodo is best described as Twitter for students and teachers. In reality though, it’s basically a private micro-blogging service for schools with built-in security features that give teachers privacy controls over their virtual classrooms.
One of the nice features is that students don’t even need an email address to join the classroom. All they need is the special sign-up code that the teacher generates when they create the environment. If a student has already joined another class on Edmodo then they can just log in as usual with their new class assigned to their login.
http://mashable.com/2008/09/18/edmodo/
Project:
Horizon Project - This is a collaborative global project between classrooms in diverse geographical locations. They used Twitter to connect the 5 classrooms from California, Vienna(Austria) Dhaka (Bangladesh), Melbourne (Australia), and Shanghai (China).
Newbies Guide to Twitter
30 Twitter Tips for Teachers
Twitter Dictionary
TwittEarth - Live Twitts from around the world
Articles:
10 Micro-blogging Tools Compared
Use of Twitter in the Classroom
7 Things you should know about Twitter
Nine great reasons why teachers should use Twitter
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