©Mark Ollig
Getting up from my office desk chair and walking into the kitchen, I can pour a cup of coffee and return to my desk in about one minute.
However, when we are talking about an internet minute, millions of individual online activities can be taking place.
Lori Lewis and Officially Chad provides content for Visual Capitalist, an online media site producing content focused on global trends, technology, investing, and the economy.
Their 2019 research reveals the number of activities or actions occurring every minute over the internet – and the numbers are mind-boggling.
In an internet minute, 3.8 million Google search queries take place.
Every 60 seconds, 4.5 million videos are watched on YouTube.
Netflix subscribers view 694,444 hours of video every minute.
Revenue generated by internet platforms is also incredible.
Consumers spend $996,956 every minute on the internet; if this amount of spending per minute continues, it will equal $524 billion in online sales being generated for all of 2019.
In 2018, Google (which owns YouTube) had $121 billion in total revenue, placing it second to Amazon, the online commerce giant, which ranked first, with $233 billion. Twitter’s total income stood at $3.3 billion.
But, I digress.
I use Twitter every day. In an internet minute, 87,500 people are sending a message or tweet.
Twitter statistics report 500 million tweets are created each day.
In the age of instant messaging, email is still being sent out in large numbers.
Some 188 million emails are sent every minute. How many of these are spam emails is debatable. If my inbox is any indication, there are still quite a lot of spam emails out there.
Every minute, there are 41.6 million messages sent using Facebook Messaging and WhatsApp.
All other messaging services account for 18.1 million texts sent per minute.
The latest Google Play and Apple AppStore statistics show there are a little more than 390,000 software apps being downloaded every minute.
In an internet minute, 1 million people will log into their Facebook account. In spite of their user privacy controversies, Facebook’s daily active user count continues to rise.
Many of us use a “smart speaker” device in our home. The one I use is called Google Home, which includes a display screen.
I’ll have my smart speaker tell me the time or temperature, or ask it to set a timer or a wakeup call.
Google Home is used to listen to and watch news, music, videos, check financial markets, set reminders, and watch YouTube TV by the use of verbal commands.
Google Home also comes in handy when writing my column, as I will occasionally ask it to provide a synonym or spell a word for me.
Statistics show companies such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, shipping out 180 smart speakers every minute, which amounts to 94,608,000 devices per year.
Sending photos and instant text and story messages using the online messaging app called Snapchat is very popular these days. Statistics show 2.1 million “snaps” are created every minute.
A GIF (pronounced “Jif,” like the brand of peanut butter) file is used within most social media platforms to express an emotion in a short video loop.
Every minute, nearly 5 million GIFs are presented, according to GIPHY, which is an internet database online that users search and share GIF files from.
Of course, the number of activities and actions occurring in an internet minute for 2020 will no doubt increase.
A lot happens in an internet minute. In our attempt to stay current, we scroll through mountains of online content at lightning speed. We stare at multiple display screens filled with activity from various social media platforms, text messages, downloaded photos, video, and Word documents.
Going offline regularly to rest and recharge our minds is not a bad idea. The internet never gets tired; however, we do.
Getting up from my office desk chair and walking into the kitchen, I can pour a cup of coffee and return to my desk in about one minute.
However, when we are talking about an internet minute, millions of individual online activities can be taking place.
Lori Lewis and Officially Chad provides content for Visual Capitalist, an online media site producing content focused on global trends, technology, investing, and the economy.
Their 2019 research reveals the number of activities or actions occurring every minute over the internet – and the numbers are mind-boggling.
In an internet minute, 3.8 million Google search queries take place.
Every 60 seconds, 4.5 million videos are watched on YouTube.
Netflix subscribers view 694,444 hours of video every minute.
Revenue generated by internet platforms is also incredible.
Consumers spend $996,956 every minute on the internet; if this amount of spending per minute continues, it will equal $524 billion in online sales being generated for all of 2019.
In 2018, Google (which owns YouTube) had $121 billion in total revenue, placing it second to Amazon, the online commerce giant, which ranked first, with $233 billion. Twitter’s total income stood at $3.3 billion.
But, I digress.
I use Twitter every day. In an internet minute, 87,500 people are sending a message or tweet.
Twitter statistics report 500 million tweets are created each day.
In the age of instant messaging, email is still being sent out in large numbers.
Some 188 million emails are sent every minute. How many of these are spam emails is debatable. If my inbox is any indication, there are still quite a lot of spam emails out there.
Every minute, there are 41.6 million messages sent using Facebook Messaging and WhatsApp.
All other messaging services account for 18.1 million texts sent per minute.
The latest Google Play and Apple AppStore statistics show there are a little more than 390,000 software apps being downloaded every minute.
In an internet minute, 1 million people will log into their Facebook account. In spite of their user privacy controversies, Facebook’s daily active user count continues to rise.
Many of us use a “smart speaker” device in our home. The one I use is called Google Home, which includes a display screen.
I’ll have my smart speaker tell me the time or temperature, or ask it to set a timer or a wakeup call.
Google Home is used to listen to and watch news, music, videos, check financial markets, set reminders, and watch YouTube TV by the use of verbal commands.
Google Home also comes in handy when writing my column, as I will occasionally ask it to provide a synonym or spell a word for me.
Statistics show companies such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, shipping out 180 smart speakers every minute, which amounts to 94,608,000 devices per year.
Sending photos and instant text and story messages using the online messaging app called Snapchat is very popular these days. Statistics show 2.1 million “snaps” are created every minute.
A GIF (pronounced “Jif,” like the brand of peanut butter) file is used within most social media platforms to express an emotion in a short video loop.
Every minute, nearly 5 million GIFs are presented, according to GIPHY, which is an internet database online that users search and share GIF files from.
Of course, the number of activities and actions occurring in an internet minute for 2020 will no doubt increase.
A lot happens in an internet minute. In our attempt to stay current, we scroll through mountains of online content at lightning speed. We stare at multiple display screens filled with activity from various social media platforms, text messages, downloaded photos, video, and Word documents.
Going offline regularly to rest and recharge our minds is not a bad idea. The internet never gets tired; however, we do.
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