What happens on the Internet every 60 seconds?
This is what’s happening every minute on the internet:
- Search engine Google serves more that 694,445 queries
- 6,600+ pictures are uploaded to Flickr
- 600 videos are uploaded to YouTube, amounting to 25+ hours of content
- 695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on social networking site Facebook
- 70 new domains are registered
- 168,000,000+ emails are sent
- 320 new accounts and 98,000 tweets are generated on social networking site Twitter
- iPhone applications are downloaded more than 13,000 times
- 20,000 new posts are published on micro-blogging platform Tumblr
- Popular web browser FireFox is downloaded more than 1,700 times
- Popular blogging platform WordPress is downloaded more than 50 times
- WordPress Plugins are downloaded more than 125 times
- 100 accounts are created on professional networking site LinkedIn
- 40 new questions are asked on YahooAnswers.com
- 100+ questions are asked on Answers.com
- 1 new article is published on Associated Content, the world’s largest source of community-created content
- 1 new definition is added on UrbanDictionary.com
- 1,200+ new ads are created on Craigslist
- 370,000+ minutes of voice calls done by Skype users
- 13,000+ hours of music streaming is done by personalized Internet radio provider Pandora
- 1,600+ reads are made on Scribd, the largest social reading publishing company
The infographic above and numbers come from the Shanghai Web Designers team. I don’t know where they got the numbers but they seem reasonable. I wouldn’t be surprised if these numbers double or triple in the next 5 years.
Source: technolog.msnbc.msn.com