Nielsen’s report dives into social media usage alone, claiming that the category sucks up 20% of time spent on computers, and 30% of time spent online on mobile phones. It also highlights rocketing use of Pinterest – about to overtake LinkedIn in terms of unique US visitors – and the fact that total minutes spent on social media in the US alone topped 121bn minutes in July 2012, up from 88bn in July 2011. Read more
Nielsen’s Social Media Report 2012
