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"Hundreds of YouTube stars are making more than six figures, and hundreds more are making more than $40,000 a year -- roughly the median salary in the US. There are even stars who have topped a million dollars, although the company wouldn't say how many."

"Amanda Hocking, the 26-year-old paranormal romance writer from Austin, Minnesota, has reportedly become a millionaire by self-publishing on Kindle. "

"The 26-year-old wrote her master's thesis for the University of Texas at Austin about Twitter--when it had only 2,000 users, not the 175 million it has today."

Klout measures your influence on your social networks.

Radian6 enables organizations to become Socially Engaged Enterprises, with the power to understand and gain insights about social media through metrics, measurement, sentiment and analytics reporting.

Facebook Insights provides Facebook Page admins and app developers with metrics on the performance of their Page or app.

Twitalyzer trends thirty different metrics for social media.

Hootsuite manages multiple social media networks from one platform.

PeerIndex is a web technology company that is algorithmically mapping out the social web. The way we see it, the social web now allows everyone endless possibilities in discovering new information on people, places, and subjects.

Crowdbooster is a service that seeks to “show you analytics that aren’t based on abstract scores but numbers that are connected to your business and your social media strategies: impressions, total reach, engagement, and more.

CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.

PrivCo is a source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies.