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The Internet of 2009 in numbers
- dell9000 17y agoStaggering numbers: 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. 500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.
- veqon 17y agoother staggering numbers: 148,000 - New zombie computers created per day 81% - The percentage of emails that were spam
- mixmax 17y agoNotice that there are 3 times as many internet users in Asia as in North America. Food for thought.
- fretlessjazz 17y agoExactly... a business plan focused on internationalization is more important now than ever.
- ehsanul 17y agoSure, but from a business perspective, those users in Asia may also be harder to monetize, depending on your market and business model. Even Google apparently had issues monetizing China, for instance, cyber-warfare and censorship aside. But you're right, web startups should definitely be looking more to Asia these days.
- siong1987 17y agoIt's hard but it isn't impossible: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200707/shenzhen/3 http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200707/shenzhen/3
- baddox 17y agoI would suggest also contrasting Asia and North America's total populations. I suspect you'll find they vary by a larger constant than 3.
- mixmax 17y agoMy point was more in relation to potential customers, which from an entrepreneurial view is the interesting metric.
- WingForward 17y ago"179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean." Statistics like these, with overstated and confusing precision, bug me. Why not say 180 Million?
- mrshoe 17y agoI bet the 10.3% of internet users in Latin America represent a bigger business opportunity than the 14.6% in North America, due to the difference in market saturation.
- bretthoerner 17y agoWhat about difference in disposable income?
- ewams 17y agoDid anyone else notice there are more Internet users than there are people on this planet?
- colonelxc 17y agoApproximately 6.8 billion people on the earth[1], versus the 1.7 billion internet users. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
- GHFigs 17y ago1,73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009). This is about how many people there were in the world 100 years ago.