Update: Vuclip recently surveyed their global users on their social media habits. The company claims that about 200,000 people from India, Indonesia, the U.S. and UAE participated in the survey. The report states that about 46.4% of Indian audience use Facebook, 10.1% use Twitter, 5.8% use LinkedIn, 29.6% use Google Plus, 5.5% use Pinterest, and 9.4% use Orkut. It's interesting to note that Indian use Google Plus, which internationally is touted as a ghost town, more than Twitter. One of the reason we suspect could be ease of discovery of the platform, while Google automatically signs up any gmail user with a Google Plus account, people are relatively ignorant about Twitter unless brought to notice by word of mouth. Apart from that it's also interesting to note that people in India still use Orkut. The report also talks about the frequency at which people use social media sites in India. About 39% Indians stated that they access social media sites several times a day, 22% access them daily, 10% accessed several days a week, 10% weekly, 9% monthly and about 10% seldom. The high percentage of social media access several times a day could be attributed to the mobile versions of these social media sites, it would have been interesting if the Vuclip had also reported on how many users access them through their mobiles. Apart from that, about 59% participants voted that they share mobile videos on social media sites, which is a quite high number given the amount of…
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