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Given these statistics, it’s obvious that Pinterest definitely is a player, here to stay, impossible to ignore.

 

Many companies finally have jumped on the bandwagon and created a few boards and started pinning, but most still are flying blind in regard to Pinterest and analytics.

 

In this article, we are going to evaluate Pinterest analytics methods and tools, and discuss how to use them effectively to improve your Pinterest marketing strategy....

Via Jeff Domansky

Social Media and Social Networking now accounts for 18% of time spent online, according to this Infographic by Morrison Foerster Socially Aware Blog.

Via maxOz

This piece is by Jeff Bullas and infographic by Go-Gulf.com

 

Intro:

 

There is one thing we do know and that the era of one social network that fits all is gone. The social network tribes are splintering onto different social media platforms because they now have real choice.

 

What you'll find in the infographic is demographics, monthly visitors on each network, who's on what network

 

So Who is Using What?

 

Here are a few findings on 5 major social networks:

 

Time spent by Average Social networking user per month

 

**Facebook 405 minutes

 

**Pinterest  405 minutes

 

**Twitter        89 minutes

 

**Linkedin       21 minutes

 

**Google+         Why You Shouldn't Ignore G00gle+

                               Updated information

 

There are lots of links to other articles about social networking in this piece that will give you more data on demographics

 

Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"

 

Read article and see infographic here: [http://bit.ly/LUujhk]

Via janlgordon

In case you missed this from Mashable last week, great information on 845 million active users on social networks. 

 

**More than 66% of adults are connected to one or more social media platforms, but who exactly are these people?

Via janlgordon