Website performance service Pingdom reported this week that Internet users saw a total of 107 trillion emails in 2010, most of those being spam.
Pingdom said that as of June 2010, there were 1.97 billion Internet users. Asia had the most at 825.1 million, followed by Europe with 475.1 million and North America with 266.2 million. Latin America had 204.7 million Internet users, while Africa had 110.9 million. The Middle East had 63.2 million users, and Australia had 21.3 million.
The web monitoring service said an average of 294 billion email messages were sent per day, with 89 percent of those being spam -- about 262 billion. There are 2.9 billion email accounts worldwide. About 480 million new email accounts were opened in 2010.
It said there were 255 million websites running in 2010, up 21.4 million from the previous year. There were 88.8 million .com domain names, 13.2 million .net domains and 8.6 million .org domain names.
Pingdom also published facts and figures on the growth of Twitter and Facebook.
It said Twitter added 100 million new accounts in 2010 and had a total of 175 million as of September. Twitter users sent 25 billion “Tweets” last year. Pingdom said that 7.7 million Twitter users followed @ladygaga -- Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user.
Facebook had a total of nearly 600 million registered users, with 250 million new users in 2010. Pingdom found that 70 percent of all Facebook users come from outside the United States. As many as 20 million Facebook apps were installed each day in 2010.
YouTube and Flickr were also tracked by the web performance and monitoring service.
Pingdom said that 2 billion videos per day were watched on YouTube in 2010, and 35 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute.
As of September 2010, more than 5 billion photos are hosted on Flickr, with 3,000+ images uploaded every minute on the site.
Figures for the list were gathered from various sources, according to Pingdom. The list is published atroyal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/.
Source: RedOrbit Staff & Wire Reports
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