Social Media Statistics Australia – January 2012

Here is our monthly report showing the latest users numbers and statistics for the most popular social media sites in Australia.

As per previous reports, all the figures below are Unique Australian Visitors to the site (UAV’s), or an average between the UAV’s and user numbers reported by reputable sources.

Social Media Statistics Australia – January 2012

1. Facebook - 10,703,340 users (this number is actually down about 17,000 users. Is this a bug in Facebook advertisement tool?) – 13 million UAVs according to Google Adplanner – people logging into Facebook from home, school, work etc?
2. YouTube – 11,000,000 UAVs
3. Blogspot – 3,500,000
4. LinkedIn – 1,800,000
5. Twitter – 1,800,000
6. WordPress – 1,500,000
7. Google Plus – 1,200,000 users (Estimation* based on 90 million users globally)
8. Tumblr – 1,000,000
9. Flickr – 830,000
10. MySpace – 470,000
11. Instagram – 350,000
12. Reddit – 170,000
13. StumbleUpon – 140,000
14. Digg – 70,000
15. Delicious – 39,000

The biggest mover this month is Google Plus (mainly because Google have released stats on their social network). I am still wondering how active these Australian users are. No where near as much as Facebook or Twitter. Due to the popularity of Instagram we have added this photo social network to the list. Please contact us if you’d like any additional sites measured.

Feel free to check out our stats for December if you’d like to see last months report. Also do check out our Australian Social Media Report for the whole of 2011.

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Stats courtesy: Google DoubleClick Ad Planner tool and Checkfacebook.com