- More than 13 million hours of video were uploaded during 2010 and 48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, resulting in nearly 8 years of content uploaded every day
- Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day
- Users upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week
- More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years
- YouTube is localised in 25 countries across 43 languages
- YouTube’s demographic is broad: 18-54 years old

- More than 800 million active users
- More than 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
- More than 2 billion posts are liked and commented on per day
- On average, more than 250 million photos are uploaded per day
- More than 70 languages available on the site
- Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
- On average, people on Facebook install apps more than 20 million times every day
- Every month, more than 500 million people use an app on Facebook or experience Facebook Platform on other websites
- More than 7 million apps and websites are integrated with Facebook
- There are more than 350 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices
- There are more than 475 mobile operators globally working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

Five years ago a
small team of people started working on a prototype of the service that we now know as Twitter. On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey (@
jack) sent
the first Tweet.
Today, on every measure of growth and engagement, Twitter is growing at a record pace. Here are some numbers:
#tweets
- 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet.
- 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets.
- 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago.
- 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month.
- 177 million. Tweets sent on March 11, 2011.
- 456. Tweets per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time).
- 6,939. Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day.
#accounts
- 572,000. Number of new accounts created on March 12, 2011.
- 460,000. Average number of new accounts per day over the last month.
- 182%. Increase in number of mobile users over the past year.
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