The year went by so quickly, and it is hard to imagine the quantitative impact of the internet on our way of life. I previously wrote a article that visually expressed social media statistics in real time, and now the summation of these numbers have come to an amazing final destination. Royal Pingdom has kept great accounting and are sharing these mind-blowing statistics.
When presenting to organizations it is impossible to convey the magnitude of New Media, and it’s impact on the internet. The internet’s vast arena has seen social media contribute to an ever increasing global internet competency of the world. This has generating the traffic and usage that is represented in these crazy stats.
Here are the some:
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In 2009 90 trillion emails were sent.
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The average number of emails – 247 billion per day
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Of these email’s 81% were spam. No wonder we love Facebook.
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Domain names purchased: .COM –81.8 million, .NET –12.3 million, .ORG –7.8 million.
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Domains are up 8% from 2008
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In December 2009 there were 234 million websites, of which 47 million were added in 2009.
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With an 18% increase from 2008, September 2009 had 1,73 billion internet users.
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North America accounted for 252,908,000. Asia… 738,257,230. Crazy growth!
Social media
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As tracked by BlogPulse, 126 million blogs on the Internet.
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More women than men on 84% of social network sites.
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Tweets per day- 27.3 million (November, 2009)
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57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.
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Number of people following @aplusk 4.25 million…..
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Facebook users 350 million. Half of them log in everyday!
Images
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Each month 2.5 billion photos are uploaded Facebook. We love to share!
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Photos uploaded to Facebook per year – 30 billion
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