Social+Media+&+Networking

=Social Media & Networking=

Facebook
[|Facebook.com] Company Overview:Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.


 * > 250 million users
 * Average user has 120 friends on the site
 * > 45 million active user groups exist on the site
 * > 350,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
 * > 200 applications have more than one million monthly active users
 * > 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices

Facebook user statistics can be found here: [|Facebook Stats]

Twitter
[|Twitter.com] Company Overview Twitter is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. Started as a side project in March of 2006, Twitter has grown into a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices.

User statistics for Twitter are notoriously hard to find. The most recent stats from March 2008 indicated:
 * 75% of users created profiles in 2009