Internet Live Stats guaranteed to overwhelm [interactive]
Posted by staff / June 11, 2015
We all know the Internet is mind-boggling huge, but it’s hard to get a sense of the sheer mass without looking at the live stats.
Get ready to feel very, very small.
Want to see how many people log onto Facebook in one second? How many videos are watched? How many spam e-mails are sent?
Are you ready for the number of websites in existence and see the number grow before your eyes?
Here’s a sample of their data from Twitter:
Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter (visualize them here), which corresponds to over 350,000 tweets sent per minute, 500 million tweets per day and around 200 billion tweets per year. The chart below shows the number of tweets per day throughout Twitter’s history:
Time to get lost in the numbers here.
Full story at Internet Live Stats.
Graphics credit: Canva
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