Internet Statistics

Want to know how many people you can network with on the Internet? I did. Here’s what I found out:

Source: sastisfactionsecrets.com

  • 126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
  • 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
  • 57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.
  • 350 million – People on Facebook.
  • 50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
  • 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
  • 47 million – Added websites in 2009
  • 1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.

Source: Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard alum and one of Facebook’s founders
“Today [Feb. 4, 2010] we’re celebrating our sixth birthday, and this week there will be 400 million people on Facebook. Just one year ago we served less than half as many people….”

source: Jeff Wiener, CEO,
LinkedIn
“LinkedIn has 50 million users worldwide and we’re growing that figure at roughly one new member per second. When LinkedIn launched in 2003, it took 477 days — almost a year and four months — to reach our first million members. This last million took only 12 days”