Statistics_Data_Facts

This week we take a look at the number of people who use social media. For this purpose I have created two graphs: One showing the number of people who use some of the most visited western social media over time; the other showing the user growth of these social media, taking as a zero point on the X-axis the day they launched.  In both cases, I've included monthly active users, i.e people that use each service at least once a month.  The number of Facebook's monthly active users is unfathomable. Facebook reported that over 2,91 billion people visited its platform during the third quarter of 2021. That means that 1 in 3 people on this planet connected one way or another to Facebook. If the growth is to continue, Facebook will announce that it has surpassed 3 billion monthly users during 2022, or 18 years after it first launched.  Facebook passed the 1 billion mark (pun intended) b...

Wordle is a fun word game that seems like the child Mastermind had with crosswords. The goal of Wordle is to find a random five-letter word in 6 tries. You do that by guessing each time what the missing word might be. After each guess, the colour of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the word.  If a letter turns green , then that letter is in the word and in the correct spot. If a letter turns yellow , it means that it is in the word but not in the correct spot, and if it turns black , the letter is not on the word at all.  The whole appeal of Wordle, and what differentiates it from other word games, is the fact that only one word is available each day. And you have surely seen by now the black, green and yellow boxes all over your social media feed. This is because when you find the correct word, you can share your Wordle solving thinking process with the world. For example this is mine from January 25th, 2022, when the word in qu...