Social media sites like Facebook with its more than 750 million users, Twitter with its more than 280 million users and the business network LinkedIn with its more than 100 million users offer wide opportunities for businesses, not matter if they are B2B or B2C, to get seen and to get in touch with their future customers. Take look at this Social Media Infographik: “53 percent of people on Twitter recommend companies or their products in their tweets.”. 42% of companies active on Twitter report that they have got new customers through Twitter.”. MORE >>

Twitter gives you only 140 characters, LinkedIn limits you to a corporate profile and product descriptions, Facebook limits you to whatever Mark Zuckerberg decided this morning. Facebook changes its layout with annoying frequency. According to research from HubSpot , “Businesses with websites that have 401-1000 web pages get six times more leads than those with 51-100 pages. blog provides content for Facebook postings. And blogging makes Twitter use much more successful. Recent research shows that only 37% of the Inc. Fresh content. Flexibility. MORE >>

Facebook. Paul Butler, part of Facebook’s data infrastructure team, took just 2% of Facebook’s user data (10 million records) and compiled this beautiful image that shows how we connect within our countries and around the world. Twitter. Finally, here is a fun Twitter infographic by Hubspot. Did you know you can grade your Twitter account? BI Social Media data facebook infographics LinkedIn Twitter visualizeIf you know me, you know I’m a very visual person. LinkedIn. Only this time, it the infographic created is about you. MORE >>

In just a few short years, Twitter has transformed from an odd little sort of public IM service where people posted what they just ate for lunch or what their cat was doing at the moment into one of the big four social networks and a significant channel for news, PR & marketing, politics and more. Twitter’s 200 million users collectively tap out a billion tweets per week. Nearly 3/4 of active Twitter users are bloggers. Twitter users are twice as likely to purchase from companies they follow than are Facebook users. Twitter and SEO. MORE >>

You know the statistics : Facebook is the most popular method for sharing online content. 85% of B2B journalists are on Facebook. 61 of the world’s 100 largest companies maintain Facebook brand pages, as do 71% of B2B firms. Three-quarters Three-quarters of North American advertising agencies say their clients run PPC campaigns on Facebook. While having a presence on Facebook is no longer an “if” question for most companies, many “how” questions remain. How can I design my company’s Facebook page for maximum impact? MORE >>