Infografia Pinterest 2012

It appears that simple ideas are sometimes the best.

Twitter is a minimalist 14o character social network, Instagram is a simple social sharing photo sharing app and Pintrest is about pinning images and videos that you like to an online pin board.

Maybe it is evidence of a cry for simplicity and efficiency in a time poor society.

Pinterest was established in December 2009 and launched as a closed beta in March 2010. It is barely 2 years old.

It wasn’t until the beginning of 2011 that it reached 10,000 users. Its breakthrough moment appears to be the inclusion in Time magazine’s “50 Best Websites of 2011”
Some more Pinterest Facts and Figures

December of 2011 Pinterest became one of the top 10 largest social networks with 11 million visits per week
In January it was driving more referral traffic traffic to retailers than LinkedIn, YouTube and Google+
Over 10.4 million registered users
Nearly 12 million monthly unique vistors
Most of the sites users are female
97% of the site’s Facebook “likes” are by females
It is the fastest site in history to break through the 10 million unique visitor mark
In early January, we had a seminar on a fast-growing visual bookmarking service called Pinterest. In the seminar we covered how to get set-up on Pinterest and start pinning links to your favorite sites. Little did we know that Pinterest would continue to explode in growth and usage. When the dust settled at the end of January, Pinterest was driving more traffic to websites than LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube combined! We realized that this growing site was a potential gold mine for businesses, so we created a handbook for Sandbox members and the general public on how to use Pinterest for marketing. You can download this free handbook by clicking here. To help demonstrate the importance Pinterest is now playing online, we teamed up with the infographic designers at Lemon.ly to visually show how quickly the visual bookmarking service Pinterest has grown. See for yourself (need a full-size version, click here): Want to embed this infographic on your site? Copy the html code here: