Interesting social media facts & statistics

As of December 2019, total worldwide population is 7.8 billion.

• The internet has 4.54 billion users

• There are 3.725 billion active social media users

• On average, people have 7.6 social media accounts

• The average daily time spent on social media is 142 minutes a day

• Social media users grew by 328 million between October 2018 and October 2019 that works out at 10 new social media users per second

• Facebook, Messenger and Whatsapp handle 60 billion messages a day

• When asked 81% of teenagers felt social media has a positive effect on their lives

• 91% of retail brands use two  or more social media channels,

• 81% of all small and medium businesses use some kind of social platform.

Source: brandwatch.com