Some Interesting Facts about Top Social Media sites

• Every minute, 10 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube
• The facebook.com domain was purchased for $200,000
• MySpace was founded by former Friendster members in 2003. It was purchased in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch
• Wikipedia is one of the largest reference Web sites, attracting at least 684 million visitors yearly by 2008. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 10,000,000 articles in more than 250 languages.
• As of November 2007, flickr.com claims to host more than 2 billion images
• It is estimated that nearly 90 percent of internet users in the Philippines have Friendster accounts
• Two-thirds of Brazilian net users use Orkut