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Facts that stuck:
- 500 BILLION minutes spent on Facebook per month.
- 25 BILLION web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc. shared on Facebook each month
- 2 BILLION YouTube videos viewed per day
- 4 BILLION images hosted on Flickr - 13 times more than the U.S. Library of Congress
- ONE-THIRD of women aged 18-34 check Facebook when they first wake up - even before going to the bathroom (!!)
- 1 in 6 marriages last year occurred between people who met through social media. That's twice more than the number of people who met at bats, clubs, and other social events combined (!!)
- 27 MILLION average “tweets” per day on Twitter
- 16,000 followers for BP's official Twitter account; @bpglobalpr, the satirical BP Twitter account, has 180,000 followers
