Interesting things that happen on the Internet every minute
The Internet is huge; check this; the number of people on Facebook right now exceeds the population of the entire planet 200 years ago! crazy right. So have you ever wondered what happens on the internet at any given time? Well; I was browsing one day and I asked myself that question. I did a little research and discovered some interesting things that happen on the internet every single minute; check it out:
Every 60 seconds on the internet:
710 computers are sold and 555 of them have Intel
81 iPads and 925 iPhones are sold (do the math)
11 XBOX consoles are sold
38 tons of E-waste is generated
4000 USB devices are sold
2500 ink cartridges are sold
2100 check-ins at foursquare.com
Google gets $75,000 in revenues (What’s your annual salary again?)
2 million internet users watched porn online (I see you smiling)
11 million conversations on Instant Messengers
103 Blackberry phones sold
1,100 acres of land are farmed in FarmVille…. really?!
$219, 000 dollars of PayPal payments made; $10,000 through mobile phones
More than 950 purchases made on eBay; more than 180 through mobile phones
12 websites got hacked (not this one) while 416 hack attempts were made
450 Windows 7 Disks are sold
1,820TB of data are created (I am sure you know what most of it is)
232 computer get infected by malware
694,445 search queries are made on Google (again I am pretty sure a huge percentage of that has something to do with boobs)
168 million emails are sent
More than 60 new blogs are created
More than 1,500 blog post are created (including this one)
More than70 domains are registered
More than 600 new videos are posted on YouTube
More than 100 questions are asked on Answers.com and more than 40 on Yahoo Answers
More than 13,000 iPhone Applications are downloaded
More than 20,000 new posts are created on tumblr
1 new definition is added to urban dictionary (long live slang!)
More than 1,600 reads are made on Scribd
More than 13,000 hours worth of music is streamed on Pandora
More than 12,000 new advertisements are posted on Craiglist
More than 370,000 minutes worth of voice calls is made on skype
More than 98,000 tweets are made (glad I could help)
More than 320 twitter accounts are created
More than 100 new Linkedin accounts are created
1 new article is created on associated content
More than 6,600 new images are uploaded on flickr
More than 50 WordPress downloads are made
More than 125 WordPress plugins are also downloaded
More than 695,000 facebook status updates are created with more than 79,000 wall posts and 510,000 comments (again; glad I could help)
More than 1,700 Firefox downloads are made
So what do you think…….