Hyderabad, World Social Media Day is celebrated on June 30 where the people from all over the world join in to recognize the impact of social media on global communication. Masahable, a popular website started this day in 2010.
Social Media is not only helping people to connect with their friends and families but also has change the working style of many educational institutions, private companies, research organisations, small and big businesses etc. The presence of social media can be seen anywhere and everywhere.
- 3.81 billion active users globally use social media where as in 2019, India had 574 million internet users.
- It is estimated that by December 2020 there will be around 639 million active internet users in India.
- Facebook has 2.6 billion monthly active users as of the first quarter of 2020.
- In 2020, the global social penetration rate reached 49 percent, with East Asia and North America having the highest penetration rate at 71 and 69 percent respectively, followed by Northern Europe at 67 percent.
- UAE is the country with highest active social networking penetration with 99%.
- On a average daily basis, internet users worldwide uses 144 minutes on social media.
- India is the second-largest online market, behind China.
- Rural India has 264 million internet users and this is expected to reach 304 million in 2020. Rural India has a sizable portion that is devoid of internet access
- Food-stagram- Pizza is the most popular instagrammed food followed by sushi and steak! Yum.
- Eggscellent -The highest-liked photo on Instagram is a picture of an egg, uploaded by world_record_egg as a way to beat the record of the photo with the most likes.
- Quick fingers- There are 500 million tweets sent each day — that’s 6,000 tweets every second.
