Here's a little Internet trivia for ya'. According to Internet WorldStats, there are a whopping 1,733,993,741 people online. In other words, approximately one out of four people are Internet users. That's a lot of folks. Also, the top 10 languages are as follows:
English, 478 million users
Chinese, 384 million users
Spanish, 137 million users
Japanese, 96 million users
French, 79 million users
Portuguese, 73 million users
German, 65 million users
Arabic, 50 million users
Russia, 45 million users
Korean, 37 million users
All the rest, 290 million users
And check this out:
YouTube – 445 million users, 1 billion+ video views each day, 20+ hours of video uploaded each minute
Facebook – 390 million users, 6 billion minutes spent each day
Twitter – 55 million users, 5 thousand tweets per second during peak times
The Internet continues to amaze and astound. Growth is projected to be in mobile internet (note the growth in iPhone and iTouch devices), which, according to some, is expected to outpace desktop internet applications.
Ahhh, the amazing power of the Internet. Who knows what the future holds? Well, hang onto your hat as we'll soon find out!
