The internet is at the stage where it&'s producing some pretty incredible numbers.
The number of emails sent on the internet in 2010 was 107 trillion, according to statistics gathered by Royal Pingdom. Since antivirus companies say that about 89 percent of all email is spam, we can assume the amount of spam was 95.3 trillion messages. Here are some other cool stats from Royal Pingdom:
294 billion a4¬a4 Average number of email messages per day. 1.88 billion a4¬a4 The number of email users worldwide. 480 million a4¬a4 New email users since the year before. 262 billion a4¬a4 The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89 percent are spam). 2.9 billion a4¬a4 The number of email accounts worldwide. 25 percent a4¬a4 Share of email accounts that are corporate.
Websites 255 million a4¬a4 The number of websites as of December 2010. 21.4 million a4¬a4 Added websites in 2010.
Domain names 88.8 million a4¬a4 .COM domain names at the end of 2010. 13.2 million a4¬a4 .NET domain names at the end of 2010. 8.6 million a4¬a4 .ORG domain names at the end of 2010. 79.2 million a4¬a4 The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.). 202 million a4¬a4 The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2010). 7 percent a4¬a4 The increase in domain names since the year before.
Internet users 1.97 billion a4¬a4 Internet users worldwide (June 2010). 14 percent a4¬a4 Increase in internet users since the previous year. 825.1 million a4¬a4 internet users in Asia. 475.1 million a4¬a4 internet users in Europe. 266.2 million a4¬a4 internet users in North America. 204.7 million a4¬a4 internet users in Latin America / Caribbean. 110.9 million a4¬a4 internet users in Africa. 63.2 million a4¬a4internet users in the Middle East. 21.3 million a4¬a4 internet users in Oceania / Australia.
Social media 152 million a4¬a4 The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse). 25 billion a4¬a4 Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010 100 million a4¬a4 New accounts added on Twitter in 2010 175 million a4¬a4 People on Twitter as of September 2010 7.7 million a4¬a4 People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twittera4¬a4s most followed user). 600 million a4¬a4 People on Facebook at the end of 2010. 250 million a4¬a4 New people on Facebook in 2010. 30 billion a4¬a4 Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month. 70 percent a4¬a4 Share of Facebooka4¬a4s user base located outside the United States. 20 million a4¬a4 The number of Facebook apps installed each day.
Videos 2 billion a4¬a4 The number of videos watched per day on YouTube. 35 a4¬a4 Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. 186 a4¬a4 The number of online videos the average internet user watches in a month (USA). 84 percent a4¬a4 Share of internet users who view videos online (USA). 14 percent a4¬a4 Share of internet users who have uploaded videos online (USA). 2+ billion a4¬a4 The number of videos watched per month on Facebook. 20 million a4¬a4 Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.
Images 5 billion a4¬a4 Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010). 3000+ a4¬a4 Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr. 130 million a4¬a4 At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr. 3+ billion a4¬a4 Photos uploaded per month to Facebook. 36 billion a4¬a4 At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.
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Dean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.
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