4 Crazy Facts About YouTube

Want to impress (bore?) people at parties with some fascinating and crazy YouTube facts? Here you go 🙂

1. The longest video on YouTube runs for just under 600 hours. I’ll save you the math; that’s 24 days. Ready? Let’s begin!

2. The very first video uploaded to YouTube was about……elephant trunks:

3. The most watched video is…….Justin Bieber and “Baby” with over 3/4 billion views. If you can stand it, here it is…:

4. And finally, YouTube started off as…….a dating Website called “Tune In Hook Up”

30 Fascinating Facebook Facts

Jeff Bullas highlights all thirty, here are the first ten:

  • Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage
  • One early Facebook function was a file sharing service
  • The first “Work Networks” as well as the original educational networks included Apple and Microsoft
  • The meaning of the term poke has never been defined
  • The average Facebook user has 130 friends
  • There is an ‘App’ to see what’s on the Facebook cafe menu
  • Mark Zuckerburg (CEO of Facebook) calls himself a “Harvard Graduate” when in fact he didn’t graduate (apparently his reply is that “there isn’t a setting for dropout”)
  • California is huge on Facebook with over 15 million users (41% of the population)
  • Australian’s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average
  • A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay

For the complete list click here.