Pingdom released numbers about the internet in 2010. Even more amazing are the HUGE Social Media stats below. If you think Social Media is a fad, you are living in the dark ages. Some highlights:
88.8 million .com domain names.
There are 255 million websites
1.97 billion internet users worldwide.
480 million – New email users since the year before.
107 TRILLION emails were sent in 2010.
In Social media
152 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010
100 million – New accounts added on Twitter in 2010
175 million – People on Twitter as of September 2010
7.7 million – People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user).
600 million – People on Facebook at the end of 2010.
250 million – New people on Facebook in 2010.
30 billion – Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.
70% – Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States.
20 million – The number of Facebook apps installed each day.
Videos
2 billion – The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.
35 – Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
186 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
84% – Share of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
14% – Share of Internet users that have uploaded videos online (USA).
2+ billion – The number of videos watched per month on Facebook.
20 million – Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.
Images
5 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010).
3000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.
130 million – At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.
3+ billion – Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.
36 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.
Source: Pindom.com
How many Twitter accounts are inactive? I see many of my friends with big followings getting bored and tweeting less and less. What do you think?
I think people are getting tired of Twitter moving to Facebook.
“There are 255 million websites”
.. sounds like a massive underestimation to me .. doncha think?
.. shouldn’t that be “new” websites??
[Glenn] How Big Was The Internet, Twitter, Facebook and Social Media in 2010 and Is It Just Fad? http://me.lt/4umh
Difference with Facebook there are games to play, Twitter is mainly chat and adverts. Now if Twitter could have games included, that may keep people there longer!! Chat and Play. 🙂 x
Why do you think people are getting tired of Twitter though? Because of the lack of features that they offer, where Facebook has more things?