Did you know that 79 percent of Inc 500 CEOs and 30 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs have an active presence on at least one social network? Twitter leads the way, commanding a healthy 50.3 percent share amongst chief execs, ahead of LinkedIn (47 percent) and Facebook (45 percent), with Google+, as usual, taking home the wooden spoon (12.1 percent). Four out of five employees (81 percent) believe that CEOs who engage on social media are better equipped to lead companies in the modern world, and 82 percent of customers are more likely to trust a company whose CEO and leadership team are active on these channels. Source: CEOs Using Social Media: Statistics, Facts And Figures INFOGRAPHIC – AllTwitter

Over the past decade social media usage has been one of the most rapidly and universally adopted activities since the invention of breathing. More than half of the world’s 2.4 billion Internet users sign in to a social network regularly — a figure that is rapidly increasing. Even without China, the world’s largest Internet population, Facebook boasts more than 1 billion active users. From Facebook on down the line, the figures for social media adoption are impressive. Check out the infografik, made by Social Jumpstart and hasai , for more information about global social media usage. Source: How the World Consumes Social Media