Some 2009 social media internet statistics
2009 was an exciting year for the internet, now the naughties are over and its time to review some of the greatest hits of 2009. Social media came along way in 2009 and in some cased made huge jumps on 2009 – the twitter phenomenon of course leading the way displaying 1150% growth over 12months!
- As of June 2009, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported 8.4million active internet subscribers in Australia!
- According to ComScore Australia’s internet population over the age of 15 in 2009 grew to 12.6 million Australians from 11.3 in 2008. ComScore, November 2009
- A study on social networking usage in Australia, found more than 70 percent of Internet users in Australia visited a social networking site in June 2009, up 29 percent from the previous year. ComScore, August 2009
- Yahoo!7 Answers received 2.5 million Australia visitors. Nielsen, November 2009
- Twitter growth in the past 12 months in Australia equates to 1150%.November 2009
- Wikipedia received 5.2 million Australian visitors. Nielsen, November 2009
- Australian Facebook users uploaded 80 million pictures, wrote 32 million wall posts and 45 million status updates in October. Nielsen, November 2009
- 79.1% of internet users in Australia view online video. Universal McCann, July 2009
- Facebook’s now accounts for 29 per cent of all time spent online by Australians – this has seen research group Nielsen define the trend as Facebook Time and Non Facebook Time. Nielsen, November 2009
- October social networking usage - Facebook’s unique audience was 8.1 million, followed by MySpace which was steady on 2.3 million users while Bebo lagged well behind on 358,000. Nielsen, November 2009
- YouTube receives 6.17 million monthly Australian visitors. ComScore, 2009
- Blogger received 3.1 million Australian visitors. Nielsen, November 2009
