Each minute, there are over 695,000 status updates on Facebook; There are 695,000 search queries on Google and nearly 100,000 Tweets. The scale of online activity is truly incredible, and yet looks to increase significantly over the next decade.
Barry Ritholtz has created the comprehensive Infographics below illustrating this activity.
(via Ritholtz.com)
Earlier this year an Austrian law student Max Schrems sent a request to Facebook to provide him with all his personal data. As Facebook has its European Operations center within the EU – in Dublin, Ireland – it must conform to EU law, and thus was obliged to provide all the data it stored about him.
Facebook sent Max received a CD containing about 1,222 pages (PDF files). This included deleted chats and other interactions dating back to 2008. This data was then visualized by Berlin-based newspaper taz.de [see results below].
Max Schrems has also requested more information on any other data which Facebook stores about him. Facebook has said this is confidential, and the matter is now with Ireland’s data protection commissioner which has started an audit. As a result of this, a new initiative has been started called Europe versus Facebook, which aims for greater transparency and control of personal data on Facebook.
Visualizations of Max’s Facebook data from Taz.de
1,222 pages of Max’s Facebook data
Max’s Facebook logins
Max’s Message Activity
Max’s Facebook Network
Max’s Vienna Photos
Tags from Max’s Messages
To get access to your own data from Facebook, follow the instructions at Europe-v-Facebook.org.
(via Infosthetics and Taz.de)
Follow the Hash Tag is a neat new application, which creates a live visualization of the most active users of any particular twitter hashtag.
From Infosthetics:
The visualization can be filtered for specific keywords, retweets or even unique Twitter users, including several other parameters (such as the minimum or maximum number of times a user needs to mention the keyword to be selected). The result then becomes a large clickable bubble graph accompanied with several Twitter frequency statistics, in which each user is being represented as a unique bubble of which the size depends on the number of appropriate tweets. These bubbles can be further explored to discover the usernames, profiles and their messages
One of the most recent infographic videos showing all the latest facts & figures about social media.
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(via videoinfographs.com)
The guys over at Smashing Magazine have put together a superb collection of 34 Infographics to Understand the World of Social Media. My favourite five below:
Facebook, social media juggernaut
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