The wildly popular photo sharing site Pinterest has been at the center of both controversy and success over the last year. Once nearly completely dominated by women, it has emerged as a common option for a wider-range of users since hitting the mainstream consciousness in the beginning of 2012. This infographic breaks down some of the interesting facts about Pinterest and its users. Did you know they love to drive Dodge vehicles? They prefer Verizon 2:1 over AT&T. Nearly half of them like to cook for fun. Pinterest users are a diverse group… From: Dodge New Britain Via: Modea…

Pinterest can be such a fun place to post pictures you either take yourself or find on the web. Creating creative boards that you can fill with pictures displaying your interests is easy, and sharing your personality through visualization seems to be the latest trend. Although Pinterest will allow its users to pin from a Browser plug-in or from a website through the “pin it” button, you may notice that if you copy and paste the title and url into the description box, you will get sent to a Pinterest jail-like pop-up. This pop-up will remind you of Pinterest’s etiquette or even warn you that what…

Did you know that on average we spend only 3 minutes per month on Google+? The number is somewhat shocking since 405 of our monthly minutes are spent using Pinterest, which is a newer social site. Also, it is interesting to learn that the same amount of minutes spent on Pinterest is also spent on Facebook. …

It only takes 140-characters or less to send a Tweet and it takes under 1,000 employees to operate the company according to research done by social media firm Social Jumpstart. In fact, Disney’s Club Penguin, a social network for kids, has more employees. LinkedIn has nearly 1,800 employees and Facebook has over 3,000. Comparing the different leaders in social media, it’s easy to see which niches take the most effort. Social news site Reddit, for example, has 11 employees servicing “The Front Page of the Internet”, a site that can send hundreds of thousands of unique visitors in hours to a picture…

She already dominated the pop world, but now with over 51 million fans on Facebook and 24 million Twitter followers, Lady Gaga plans to conquer the social media world with her very own site. The plan is to round up all of her fans and unite them under one roof, a separate social media site deemed properly, “Little Monsters.”  Here, fans are able to connect with one another and share all things Gaga related, as well as share their own pictures and videos. According to developers, Little Monsters resembles Pinterest and Reddit, allowing users to scroll through picture tiles, post and repost images…

It looks like Pinterest. It acts like Digg. The newest player in the social media sphere adds some features from Stumbleupon and Twitter to the mix to form Thruzt, now entering into public beta. Unlike many of its predecessors, Thruzt encourages networks to be formed within the community to draw attention to submissions. Users select content on the web that they find valuable or write up their own stories on their blogs and submit it to Thruzt. Then, the “game” is on to get it enough votes to get popular. The first thing people will notice when visiting is that the layout is very similar to Pinterest….

It’s all a matter of expectations. When we go to Facebook, we expect to see our friends and family detailing (often too much so) their lives through pictures and declarations that range from mundane to awesome. When we go to Twitter, we expect to see news from trusted sources (depending on who you’re following) and quick tidbits from our friends. When we go to Google+, we expect to see people talking about why others should be on Google+. When we go to Pinterest, we expect to see cool things to buy (amongst other things, of course). That’s why they just got a lot of money. This expectation has been set…

After doubling its users in February, growth slowed dramatically in March down to 1 million new users or 5% growth. It supposedly has investors and others worried. They shouldn’t be. We’ve seen this before and we’ll see it again, and Pinterest will hit its next big user bump by July. This is part of the cycle that hot startups almost always have to go through to get to the next level. Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr – all of them experienced a burst of growth that could be attributed to the tech-savvy cutting edgers out there who latch onto new sites and determine if they’re addiction-worthy or not. Once…

Everyone is talking about Pinterest for business or Pinterest for marketing but what about Pinterest for education? Can the fastest-growing social network be used to help in schools rather than distract students as many of the other social networks have been accused of doing? That’s the concept of this infographic. Whether it’s for curating content or organizing ideas, the basics that surround Pinterest do tend to be useful in a classroom setting if used properly. Click to enlarge. From: Online Universities Blog…

In 2007, there was an emerging social media site that had a modest but growing userbase. It was designed to let users tell their friends and followers what they were doing at that moment regardless of how mundane or personal. The posts on it were comprised of over 90% unlinked statements or questions. It wasn’t very common for people to post links unless it was to an image that helped encapsulate the moment in which they were living. The mainstream explosion of Twitter in 2008 changed the site tremendously. People started flocking in. Celebrities started flocking in. Marketing zombies started…