Some absolutely mind-boggling stats about the state of the Internet in 2010 via Pingdom.  The numbers reminded me of this quote from John Piper: “One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”

Email

• 107 trillion — The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
• 294 billion — Average number of email messages per day.
• 1.88 billion — The number of email users worldwide.
• 480 million — New email users since the year before.
• 89.1% — The share of emails that were spam.
• 262 billion — The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).
• 2.9 billion — The number of email accounts worldwide.
• 25% — Share of email accounts that are corporate.

Websites

• 255 million — The number of websites as of December 2010.
• 21.4 million — Added websites in 2010.

Internet users

• 1.97 billion — Internet users worldwide (June 2010).
• 14% — Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
• 825.1 million — Internet users in Asia.
• 475.1 million — Internet users in Europe.
• 266.2 million — Internet users in North America.
• 204.7 million — Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
• 110.9 million — Internet users in Africa.
• 63.2 million — Internet users in the Middle East.
• 21.3 million — Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

Social media

• 152 million — The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
• 25 billion — Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010
• 100 million — New accounts added on Twitter in 2010
• 175 million — People on Twitter as of September 2010
• 7.7 million — People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user).
• 600 million — People on Facebook at the end of 2010.
• 250 million — New people on Facebook in 2010.
• 30 billion — Pieces of content (links, notes, photos) shared on Facebook per month.
• 70% — Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States.
• 20 million — The number of Facebook apps installed each day.

Videos

• 2 billion — The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.
• 35 — Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
• 186 — The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
• 84% — Share of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
• 14% — Share of Internet users that have uploaded videos online (USA).
• 2+ billion — The number of videos watched per month on Facebook.
• 20 million — Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.

Images

• 5 billion — Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010).
• 3000+ — Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.
• 130 million — At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.
• 3+ billion — Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.
• 36 billion — At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.