Social media statistics & facts
Every Friday we share our favourite Social media facts (#FactFriday), here are some of our favourite that you can use or integrate into your marketing!
Monthly active users:
Facebook: 2.27 Billion Source
Instagram: 1 Billion Source
Twitter: 326 Million Source
LinkedIn: 562 Million Source
Pinterest: 250 Million Source
Snapchat: 188 Million (Daily) Source
YouTube: 1.8 Million Source
Average amount of time spent a day
Facebook: 58.5 Minutes Source
Instagram: 53.2 Minutes Source
Snapchat: 49.5 Minutes Source
YouTube: 40 Minutes Source
Best day to post
Facebook: Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday Source
Instagram: Monday & Thursday Source
Twitter: Wednesday Source
LinkedIn: Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday Source
Pinterest: Saturday & Sunday Source
Snapchat: Anyday of the week Source
YouTube: Thursday & Friday Source
Best time to post
Facebook: 9am, 1pm & 3pm Source
Instagram: 2am, 8am, 9am & 5pm Source
Twitter: 12pm, 3pm, 5pm & 6pm Source
LinkedIn: 7am, 8am, 12pm, 5pm & 6pm Source
Pinterest: 2am, 2pm, 9pm Source
Snapchat: Between 10pm & 1am Source
YouTube: Between 9am & 11am Source
Uploads
Facebook: 4.75 billion pieces of content shared a day Source
Instagram: 95 Million photos a day Source
Twitter: 500 Million tweets a day Source Snapchat: 3.5 Billion Snaps sent a day Source YouTube: 300 Hours of video uploaded a minute Source
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