When your boss or a potential client asks you just how many eyes you can get their message in front of through social media, "a lot" may be an acceptable answer. But if you want to impress then, you could tell them that Pinterest has 40 million monthly active users or that 50 million users have signed up for Instagram in the past six months or that 77% of Internet users reads blogs.
To say that social media is changing and growing is platitudinous. Knowing exactly how much growth is occurring and, more important, what that growth means is an important part of professional communications.
Thanks to this interactive infographic from Digital Insights, we get an update on the latest interesting statistics for Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, blogs and more:
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