Pins, pins, and more pins

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.

1. 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
2. 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/
3. 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