What the Internet Is Doing As You Read This Post

Consider this; It will take you about a minute to read this post. During those 60 seconds, the Internet is abuzz. 

In a single minute;

• Facebook users share 684,000 bits of content
• YouTube users upload 48 hours of new video
• Twitter users send more than 100,000 tweets
• Google receives over 2 million search queries
• Apple receives around 47,000 application downloads
• Email users send more than 204 million messages
• Mobile Web receives 217 new users
• Consumers spend $272,000 on Web shopping
• Tumblr blog owners publish 27,000 new posts
• Instagram users share 3,600 new photos
• Flickr users add 3,125 new photos
• Foursquare users perform 2,000 check-ins
• WordPress users publish close to 350 new blog posts
• Brands receive more than 34,000 Facebook "likes"

Check out this great infographic from Domo. The numbers for most of these Internet outlets are growing every day. Other outlets may not even exist to make such a list in the future. It's incredible to ponder what this infographic might look like next year, in a decade, in a generation.

 

What can't be argued is that data - in one form or another - has become omnipresent. And the sheer volume of that data is only growing, minute-by-minute.