Internet+in+2009

Posted by Jeff Wood on Friday, April 16, 2010 Fascinating article at the [|Royal Pingdom], running down the shape of the Internet, 2009, by the numbers. I had no idea Ashton Kutcher was so popular.

Highlights:


 * Email**
 * 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
 * 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
 * 81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.
 * 92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
 * 24% – Increase in spam since last year.


 * Social Media**
 * 126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
 * 84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
 * 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
 * 57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.
 * 4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user).
 * 350 million – People on Facebook.
 * 50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.


 * Videos**
 * 1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.
 * 182 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
 * 81.9% – Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.


 * Malicious software**
 * 148,000 – New zombie computers created per day (used in botnets for sending spam, etc.)
 * 2.6 million – Amount of malicious code threats at the start of 2009 (viruses, trojans, etc.)
 * 921,143 – The number of new malicious code signatures added by Symantec in Q4 2009.