United States
Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
Platform
Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including over 80 of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and over half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites
Mobile
There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
At the end, in accordance to what I mentioned above, we can see it is vital for companies to have flexible marketing strategies by awareness of what will come in future. Frankly, you can they cannot escape social networks. Even the U.S. State Department has a Facebook and Twitter account, and they even performed a social networking site on their own server. The benefits of marketing on social networks are plentiful and can gain at very low cost. Let’s count some of these benefits:
increase web traffic
increase customer loyalty
improve Search Engine Optimization(SEO)
increase new product launches success
increase awareness of brand and product
References:
1)Â Â Â Â Â LinkedIn For Dummies, by Joel Elad, 2008
2)Â Â Â Â Â How to use LinkedIn for business, by Karen Purves, 2009: www.Havemoreclients.com
3)Â Â Â Â Â Guide to social media marketing V.2, 2009 GNOSIS ARTS MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS LLC
4)     How to use LinkedIn for business, www.HubSpot.com
5)Â Â Â Â Â Facebook Marketing For Dummies, by Paul Dunay and Richard Krueger, 2010
6)Â Â Â Â Â Â Online Marketing Opportunity Report: Social Media, Blog, and Search Engine Activity by Industry: www.HubSpot.com
7)Â Â Â Â Â Social Network Marketing: The Basics, 2008 Red Bridge Marketing
8)Â Â Â Â Â The Only Marketing Jobs Definite Guide to: Helping you maximise your business networking potenyial, www.onlymarketingjobs.com
9)Â Â Â Â Â Twitter Marketing For Dummies, by Kyle Lacy with contributions from Manny Hernandez
10)Â www.Facebook.com
11)Â www.LinkedIn.com
12)Â www.Twitter.com