the sources below provide a vast wealth of data, statistics and research results, as well as a bit of interesting social media trivia. 10 Interesting Social Media Statistics by Jeff Bullas. Americans spent nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs in 2010, up from 15.8 20+ mind-blowing social media statistics revisited by Econsultancy. At its current rate, Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in 2010. Facebook, Twitter Growing As Video Referral Sources by MediaPost Online Media Daily. Then Twitter. MORE >>

If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. According to a HubSpot study, 71% of marketers viewed Twitter as a useful marketing tool last year, up from just 39% in 2009. Facebook added more than 200 million users last year, and Twitter more than doubled in size, adding 115 million. Discover the answers to these questions and more here in 55 of the best guides to social media strategies, tactics, tools and statistics of the past year. MORE >>

Infographics tools and resources. For those DIYers among you, we’ve also come across a few handy tools that you may find useful to play around with…     . Neoformix: Profiled in June in Harvard Business Review , Neoformix has a variety of visualisation tools enabling you to analyse different Twitter accounts and keywords. We’ll add more to the list as we come across them, but please feel free to add your own infographic finds and tools for the benefit of all. B2B b2b statistics infographics social media Web trend map. CMO social landscape.  . MORE >>

STATISTICS. Top analytic tools: Google Analytics (97%), Facebook (62%, not growing as much as Google Analytics is), YouTube (40%, big uptake from last year). 60% of people spend less than 2 hours a week on analytics (67% in 2011, 72% in 2010), 27% spent 2-5 hours a week on analytics (22% in 2011, 17% in 2010). Conferences & Events Social Media Statistics Higher ed Karine Joly Marketing Twitter web97% of institutions track web traffic. Full-time staff are beginning to be hired just for analytics. Who tracks conversions? Who gets to see the data? MORE >>

Whether you’re anxious to get started marketing on Facebook, already there but looking for better results, or not sure if Facebook is right for your company (despite the eye-popping audience numbers), you’ll find guidance here in some of the best posts on Facebook marketing so far in 2010: tips, tactics and best practices for building Facebook pages, growing your fan (or “like&# ) base, advertising, optimizing for search, using Facebook apps and tools, and more, from experts like Mari Smith, Lisa Barone, Ching Ya, John Haydon, Brian Carter, Marty Weintraub and Shel Holtz. MORE >>