January came and went, and so did unforgettable social media developments. To recap last month, we gathered the most important facts and statistics documented in January 2012.
- Twitter users welcome 2012 with 16,000 tweets-per-second, more than doubling last year's record. (Source: MediaBistro)
- President Obama joined the 15+ million users on Instagram. (Source: YourSocialMove)
- 3% of adults say they get news and information about local businesses from social media, while 38% claim to use Internet search engines. (Source: Pew Internet)
- 49,000,000 Americans visited the Google+ platform. (Source Hitwise)
- Coldplay became the top page on Google+ with 618,356 followers. (Source: SocialStatistics)
- 82% of the world's online population are determined to be reached by social networking sites, representing 1.2 billion users around the world. (Source: comScore)
- For the first time in its 11-year life, Wikipedia's English-language pages went offline to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act. (Source: YourSocialMove)
- 19.7% of the total Facebook user base is proven to be located in the United States. (Source: AllFacebook)
- 4,306 +1's are counted on the most-shared picture this month on Google+. (Source: SocialStatistics)
- The first ever Super Bowl Social Media Command Center launched in preparation for Super Bowl XLVI. (Source: YourSocialMove)
- McDonald's used two hashtags, #MeetTheFarmers and #McDStores, in their Promoted Tweets which turned into a marketing disaster. (Source: MediaBistro)
What do you think these facts foreshadow for the rest of 2012? Did we miss any other imperative events and achievements from January? Let us know!