Want to know what's been happening with the internet and all the latest facts and figures? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? Pingdom have all the answers using a wide variety of sources from around the Web. Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get you even more numbers to chew on. Prepare for a good kind of information overload. Here's a sample:
“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.
For info go to the website:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers
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