Stunning Stats on Twitter, YouTube, Photos, & Apps

A friend of ours in the broadcasting biz shared this data with us. Check it out!

The Bandwidth Music & Technology Conference in San Francisco last month featured discussions where attendees shared some incredible data points. Take a look:

The latest on Twitter…

# of tweets, daily: 70 million

# of tweets, monthly: 2 billion

# of registered users: 145 million

# of account sign-ups, daily: 300,000

(Source: Matt Graves, Communications Director @ Twitter.)

The latest on photos…

# of photos uploaded onto Facebook, monthly: 2.5 billion # of photos uploaded to Facebook, annually: 30 billion # of approved photos typically needed by a band, 2000: 6-9 # of approved photos typically needed by a band, 2010: 300-400.

The latest on YouTube:

#2 search engine in the world (of all engines, separated from Google) # of videos rotated by MTV, during its 80s prime: 30-40 per week # of views for Tyler Hilton’s cover of  “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon: 748,099

The latest on Apps:

# of downloaded apps, App Store: > 5 billion (as of June)

# of artist apps typically downloaded (per artist): < 100,000

(Source on YouTube, photo and apps data: Jeremy Welt, SVP of New Media, Warner Bros. Records.  Total downloaded app statistic from Apple.)