{"id":10918,"date":"2013-01-18T07:16:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T01:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simplify360.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/18\/23-interesting-social-media-statistics-and-facts-about-india\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T04:10:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T04:10:12","slug":"23-interesting-social-media-statistics-and-facts-about-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplify360.com\/blog\/23-interesting-social-media-statistics-and-facts-about-india\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Interesting Social Media Statistics and Facts About India"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"10918\" class=\"elementor elementor-10918\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-51b2b87b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"51b2b87b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41dbe2ec\" data-id=\"41dbe2ec\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-346a89c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"346a89c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Be it any social media of digital marketing channels, people are usually obsessed either global data or the data of the western countries. So now we have tried to bring some light facts about the social media in India.<br \/><br \/>1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 India has 125 million Internet users<br \/>2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 On an average, Indian web users spend 26 minutes online each day<br \/>3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 87.1 million users experience Internet on their smart phones and this number is expected to grow to 165 million by 2015<br \/>4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Top social media networking sites are Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Orkut, BharatStudent.com, Zedge.net, Ibibo.com, hi5.com, Shtyle.fm, Indyarocks, Fropper.com and Myspace.com.<br \/>5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Facebook has 45 million, twitter has 15 million and LinkedIn has 45 million users in India<br \/>6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 India is predicted to be the top Facebook user by 2015<br \/>7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 The top 5 Facebook pages on Facebook are Dove, Tata Docomo, MTV Roadies, Kingfisher and Fastrack<br \/>8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 The top 5 twitter brands in India are MTV India, NDTV, Times of India, IPL, CNN-IBN<br \/>9.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Top 5 YouTube channel in India are Rajshri.com, Eros Now, YRF (Yash Raj Films), Sasvn and IPL<br \/>10.\u00a0\u00a0 Indians spent whopping 807,200,000 minutes on the ESPN during 2011 ICC world cup which adds upto 150 years<br \/>11.\u00a0\u00a0 Mumbai has the highest FB user database with over 3.7 million users<br \/>12.\u00a0\u00a0 There are 73% male FB users and 27% users are female<br \/>13.\u00a0\u00a0 India ranked to be the second largest country with 142,339 users in Google+<br \/>14.\u00a0\u00a0 Pinterest gets 4.8% traffic from India who gives 3.9% of page views<br \/>15.\u00a0\u00a0 60% of social networking traffic comes from non-metro cities in India. However the highest traffic comes from the metros i.e. Mumbai<br \/>16.\u00a0\u00a0 The male to female ratio in terms of social media usage is 60:40 indicating that males are the top users<br \/>17.\u00a0\u00a0 Social media is available for only 60% of the entire Indian audience<br \/>18.\u00a0\u00a0 Age group of 15-24 are the highest number of social media users<br \/>19.\u00a0\u00a0 On an average Facebook is visited atleast thrice a day<br \/>20.\u00a0\u00a0 Major chunk of the time spent by Indian audience is on Facebook games, apps and viewing photos<br \/>21.\u00a0\u00a0 Facebook is the only social media network that has seen tremendous growth which two times in the last six months<br \/>22.\u00a0\u00a0 In the next six months, twitter will have 25000 Indians joining every day<br \/>23.\u00a0\u00a0 Salman Khan, Indian Bollywood actor, is declared the King of social media with 7 million fans on Facebook and 3million followers on twitter.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be it any social media of digital marketing channels, people are usually obsessed either global data or the data of the western countries. 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