The Incredible Pace of Facebook

By Stijn Vogels on 3 January 2011 in New (ways of using) Media | Comments Off

With 2011 coming to a good end, the year 2011 is already off to a racing start. Over the past year, the social media landscape has continued to evolve quite a bit. We’ve already shown you the many ways in which channels like Twitter and Facebook have evolved in the past year. It’s clear in which directions the big players are moving.

Let’s have a look now at what their users are doing. More and more people are joining social media. Facebook is set to reach 600 million users very soon. What are all of these people doing online? What are their interests?

60 seconds on Facebook

Every single minute of every single day, the users of Facebook take millions of actions per minute. Here are some of the incredible statistics of what is happening on Facebook in 60 seconds while you read this article.

20 minutes on Facebook

What happens on Facebook in 20 minutes is equally stunning. Here is a snapshot “showing the huge number of photos, links and statuses posted everyday demonstrating how much the internet has changed the way we interact with our friends, making it easier for us stay in touch or share our interests, with Facebook being at the centre of that change in 2010.”

• 10.208.000 comments
• 4.632.000 messages sent
• 2.716.000 photos uploaded
• 1.972.000 friends requests accepted
• 1.851.000 status updates
• 1.587.000 wall Posts
• 1.484.000 event invites are sent out
• 1.323.000 photos tagged
• 1.000.000 links shared

I for one would not want to be paying their hosting bill.

Image: Visualizing Friendships (Facebook Engineering’s Notes)

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