Due to the rapidly evolving nature of social media, the stats need updating all the time and the latest iteration reveals some fascinating insights.

• There are 2.3 billion Google +1s clicked a day

• Half a million new Android users register their account each day

• Amazingly, despite the staggering billion tweets sent out every week, YouTube videos receive view counts twenty times that

• Facebook now generates £2,500,000,000 a year in advert revenues

• Around 10 billion apps for iOS devices are downloaded each year

• Within just three weeks, Google+ had over 20 million accounts

• There were 80 million new Facebook accounts registered between January and April this year, and there are half a million Twitter profiles activated every day. LinkedIn is not far behind, with a million new users a week

• A mind-boggling 300,000,000 minutes of call time are clocked on Skype per month

• Google Chrome has risen from 10 to 20% of web browser market share in the past year

• A casual 30 billion items are shared on Facebook each month

(From Brandwatch)