Random social media stats and stuff

Haven't posted in a while, but there have been several interesting stats about social media usage that I've posted on my Facebook profile, but that's written in water, so I figured I'd stash them here. Most of them showed up first on Mashable, which runs a great clearinghouse on this sort of thing, even if they are WAY too hyper about their Facebook posting.

Here's a great video that incorporates a ton of different stats on the growth of the internet and especially social media.

Here's a nice infographic on the state of Twitter.

Here's a study on the "obsession" of social media users.

Here's a nice study showing that people use different social media platforms for different things.

Finally, there's a nice piece from Salon.com about a cool story involving Conan O'Brien, a random Twitter user, and a lot of good.