I’ve had a Pinterest account for quite a few years. I use it to save and share images that I find interesting as well as to share many of my own images.
I try to stay clear of copyright issues with the images I pin. Most are either public domain, Creative Commons, or mine. I also selectively pin from Pinterest-friendly sites… and Zazzle products.
I used to spend quite a bit of time pinning new images. It’s been quite a while since I’ve done that. Now, I’ll pin an image on occasion when I think of it.
I seldom actually go to the Pinterest site. Since I’m not as familiar with it as I once was, it seems to be less intuitive to navigate than it once was. It took me a while to figure out where to access the page that has all on my pinboards.
I was just thinking that I hadn’t been able to find how many total pins I have, but I see that it’s listed on the page I just mentioned. There are 20,467 pins. I have 3,744 people following my pins and I follow 182. Apparently, my pins get about 260,000 monthly views.
I guess some of that does send traffic to some of Karen’s and my pages. We do earn enough money online to do a bit more than pay for all of our internet usages, excluding streaming services.
I used to get information showing the pins that were the most popular and getting the most repins. I haven’t seen that information in a while. I suppose that I could probably access that somehow, but I really don’t have the interest.
As one of the most popular social media sites in the world, Pinterest currently has 478 million monthly active users. Just 9 months earlier, it first exceeded 400 million. Most of the recent increase has been from a year-on-year rise in international users (up 37%) though US growth continued (up 9%). Sixty percent of users are female and women tend to pin more.1
Pinterest has more active users than both Twitter and Snapchat combined. (That’s pretty amazing given all of the media attention that tweets garner regularly in the media.) Around 85% of pinners save pins using a smartphone app. The total number of pins saved by users now exceeds 240 billion – an average of about 533 pins per user. Pinterest use is growing fastest among younger users. About half of U.S. users use Pinterest for shopping (I didn’t even know that was a thing!) and almost 90% use the platform for planning purchases and getting inspiration for “what could fit well in their homes, offices or make great gifts for friends and family.”2
“Pinterest is a social site where you can collect and share images of anything you find interesting. You can also visually discover new interests by browsing the collections of other Pinterest users.” It’s a virtual bulletin board with organizational and bookmarking tools.3
After looking at Pinterest a bit more, I think I may start using it a bit more, though I don’t plant to get obsessed with it like others are. I have plenty of other things I’m interested in.
- Lin, Y. (2021, July 15). 10 Pinterest statistics every marketer should know in 2021 [infographic]. Retrieved July 20, 2021, from https://www.oberlo.com/blog/pinterest-statistics
- West, C. (2021, March 03). 23 Pinterest stats and Facts Marketers must know in 2021. Retrieved July 20, 2021, from https://sproutsocial.com/insights/pinterest-statistics/
- Moreau, E. (2021, July 09). Everything you need to know to start using pinterest. Retrieved July 20, 2021, from https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-use-pinterest-3486578
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I have never used Pinterest.
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I can say the same about most social media apps.
Our youngest daughter, though, is quite the social media master and has specialized in search engine optimization (SEO). She is the only person I know who has actually sold a blog and she apparently got a very good sum for it. Her current job title is SEO Campaign Manager at a high-profile California startup company. Part of that job is leveraging social media to benefit her clients.