14 DAY TRIAL // The internet is hardly a novelty at this point yet, for something many are now taking for granted, the internet continues to grow at a huge pace in all aspects, from the number of sites to the number of people using it. Website monitoring company Pingdom has gathered some of the most interesting stats of the last year and compiled them into one long list.
Email use has the most impressive numbers, in total 107 trillion emails have been sent in 2010. This breaks down to an average of 294 billion emails every day.
It's no wonder then that there are 1.88 billion email users worldwide, close to the total number of people using the web in 2010.
And if you thought that email is yesterday's technology, thing again, 480 million more people started using email last year alone.
However, considering that roughly 89 percent of all emails sent are automated spam messages, the number of useful emails is a much lower, but still impressive 32 billion per day.
Interestingly, there are actually 2.9 billion email accounts, a lot more than there are internet users.
Many people have more than one account, even if they're not using them all, and the amount of spam sent each day contributes to the number of accounts as well.
While email is still holding strong, social media use is on the rise as well. Old school blogging is still very popular and there were roughly 152 million blogs at the end of 2010.
WordPress.com alone added six million blogs in the past year, on top of the existing 10 million.
There are an estimate 600 million people using Facebook at this point, though the latest official figure, from last summer, is still 500 million. Considering the unofficial estimates, 250 million people joined Facebook in 2010.
Twitter is not doing so bad itself, there were 25 billion tweets sent in 2010. And it's been a great year for growth as well, 100 million new users joined Twitter in the last year.