We take a lot of what happens on the Internet for granted but the numbers that make up the Internet are staggering to say the least. Here’s a small subset from 2009 of what goes on out there:
247 billion emails per day
81% of email is spam ( that’s 200 billion per day )
1.73 billion Internet users worldwide
27.3 million Twitter tweets per day
350 million people on Facebook
2.5 billion photos uploaded to Facebook each month
1 billion videos served by YouTube per day
148,000 new zombie computers created per day ( the bulk of these are Windows PCs )
For some more staggering numbers, take a look at pingdom’s article.