Snapchat and Twitter has surpassed linkedin in terms of traffic . Facebook leads Social network marketshare with  over 1,5 billion, followed by Tumblr  and instagram with 500 million users. Twitter and Snapchat share the honors for the 4th and 5th place
Pinterest and Linkedin have seen their places toppled by  Instagram and snapchat.

The data shows  the number of private investors led by  venture capital  firms, private equity investors and corporate investors which still control  a fair percentage of stakes at LinkedIn. To know the details of the investors, hover your mouse on the bar chart.

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How has the Twitter Stock fared in the last one year compared to Linkedin
Twitter One year Stock market Return
Linkedin One year stock Market returns

LINKEDIN SHARE PRICE IN THE LAST 3 YEARS 

The chart shows the Stock price of Linkedin  as how it performs in terms of Return to investors as compared to its peers

Linkedin was launched on 5th May, 2003 by Reid Hoffman and 5 team members. Click here to see complete linkedin stats

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1. Linkedin users (%)  with more than 500 connections:                           41
2.  LinkedIn  membership after one year of operations :               4,500 
3. Number of Languages which Linkedin Supports:                           24 
4. Number of Employees which works at Linkedin :                      7,600 
5. Total number of LinkedIn users :                                                313,000,000 
6. Number of monthly unique visitors to LinkedIn:                     87,000,000
7.  Professional  hired via  ads on  LinkedIn:                                   35,522,000 
8.  interviews  received from Linkedin :                                           122,070,000
9. Number of  linkedin account is created   seconds:                                1
10. Number of full time employees in Linkedin:                                    7600 
11. Cost of  Linkedin stock  per share at its IPO debut :                          $45 
12. Cost of Linkedin Share after the first day of trading :                        $94 (109%
13. Linkedin  revenues from non US Countries in percentage                30%
14. Percentage of Linkedin Subscribers who are paid members:           16%
15. The increase in percentage of Linkedin company created pages:              33%

data/source :ebizmba Alexa and Compete published their list of most trafficked  social web sites  this year . Social networking sites led by Facebook and Twitter rules the  social box office with  compete ranking it 3 and Alexa ranking in 2. Alexa ranks websites in terms of web traffic, as a result the lower the alexa rank, the higher the traffic and vice versa.  Compete is a similar tool which ranks web sites  as per unique visitors.   Twitter and Linkedin make the number 2 and 3  most frequented social networks with a compete ranking it  21 and Alexa ranking it 7. Linkedin ranks  25 in compete and 9 in Alexa

Tech brands with the highest number of woman managers  

Gender diversity in  leadership  Positions  in Technology companies  The chart published by Gigacom above shows the gender diversity in top technology companies when it comes to leadership. Some companies count leadership roles as being only vice presidents, others count as broad a definition as “officials and managers.” eBay, Apple, and HP have the most women in leadership roles, although at 28 percent they’re still far from equally weighted.

 

The above chart  shows data on the top 10 most visited social networks in US  across cross platform devices including browser-based visits across personal computers, tablets and mobile phones
Facebook forms 55.2% of all visits to social media websites in US,followed by Youtube with 20.7% Americans logging in via their smartphones, Tablets or PC/Desktops 

Suprisingly Twitter  is loosing out to Google Plus in terms of online visits as  Google + 4% share  to twitters 2.52% visits. QA Community site Yahoo Answers is visited more than Linkedin( 1.45% vs 1.38%), followed by Pinterest 1.12%

 

SOCIAL WEBSITES AND WEB TRAFFIC REFFERAL

The   referral traffic  from social sites is lead by Facebook by a huge margin,  as  around 3%( 2.9) of referral web traffic is sent by Facebook, Youtube and Reddit comes a poor second and third. Facebook has been the largest content sharing social site since the past 4 years as wellLinkedin and Stumbleupon  ranks 5th andf 4th respectively

Together 14 social media sites send 3.4% traffic .. out of which Facebook forms over 97% of referral traffic

Social Media Platform by Reach  Twitter and Instagram are closely matched in total reach, a finding that makes sense given a recent report from the Pew Research Center indicating that a majority of Twitter users also use Instagram. Facebook, of course, continues to stand head-and-shoulders above the rest. Meanwhile, only LinkedIn and Vine are accessed by primarily by desktop-only visitors.

8 million people accessed a social media site in New Zealand  with a reach of 95% of the audience .

The Social media site with the highest visitors were

1) Facebook was no 1 with 1.95 million unique visitor

2) LinkedIn  was no 2 with an audience of 798,000 unique visitors, with a 53% growth over last year

3)Blogging  among the Kiwi Population continues to grow with no 3

New Zealand Internet Usage and penetration

YEAR	Users	Population	% Pop.	Usage Source
2000	830,000	3,737,280	22.2 %	ITU
2003	2,110,000	4,122,609	51.2 %	ITU
2006	3,200,000	4,274,588	74.9 %	ITU
2012	3,810,144	4,430,400	86.0 %	AUT

 

This statistic shows LinkedIn’s revenue as of third quarter 2013, broken down by segment. In the second quarter of 2013, LinkedIn’s subscription revenue amounted to 73 million US dollars and grew to 79.8 million US dollars in the following quarter.

LinkedIn’s Revenue by geography : US  vs MENA vs APAC vs rest of world

Linkedin Revenues based on Product Solutions: