Rural India tops urban India in Social Media usage with 100% growth: Study

Usage of Social Media in Rural India has grown by an impressive 100 percent during the last one year with 25 million users in Rural India. On the other hand, Urban India registered a relatively lower growth of 35 percent with the total number of users at 118 million as on April 2015. According to the Social Media in India 2014 report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India [IAMAI] and IMRB International, there are 143 million social media users in India as on April 2015.

The report also finds that the top 4 Metros continue to account for almost half of the Social Media users in Urban India.

According to the latest report, the largest segment accessing Social Media consists of the College Going Students with 34% followed by Young Men at 27%. School going children constitute 12% of the social media users. College Going Students and Young Men still form the 60% of the Social Media users in Urban India.

The report further finds that 61% of these users access Social Media on their mobile device. The fact that almost two thirds of the users are already accessing social media through their mobile is a promising sign. With the expected increase in mobile traffic the number of users accessing social media on mobile is only bound to increase.

According to the report, maintaining a profile on social networking sites are a top activity of users followed by updating status.  Commenting on a blog site is the third most popular activity among users in social networking sites.