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Time spent on social media by U.S. internet users 2011-2012
This statistic displays the total amount of time spent on social media in the United States in July 2011 and July 2012, by access type. During that July 2012, social media app usage grew to 40.8 billion minutes, up from 23.3 billion in the previous year.