Photographs: Nir Elias/Reuters
The proportion of the global population using the Internet rose three percentage points to 38.8 per cent in 2013. More significantly, average worldwide broadband speeds are up 17 per cent on last year, according to Quartz, a business publication.
Let's take a look at what happens on the Internet every minute of every single day. A note of caution: This is a rough snapshot, not definite data.
Source: Intel
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
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Data transfer
About 639,800 gigabyte of Internet protocol data is transferred every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
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Mail growth
More than 200 million emails are sent every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
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Video uploads
More than 30 hours of videos are uploaded on the Internet every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Video views
More than 1.3 million video views are recorded every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Mark Blinch/Reuters
Search queries
More than 2 million search queries are recorded every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
World of Facebook
Facebook sees 277,000 logins and 6 million views every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
Tweeting the tweets
Twitter sees more than 320 new accounts and 100,000 new tweets every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Kimberly White/Reuters
Snapshot
Flickr records more than 20 million views of photos every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Ethan Miller/Reuters
Music to the ears
Pandora, a free and personalised radio, plays more than 61,141 hours of music every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Ralph D Freso/Reuters
Retail rush
Amazon records more than $83,000 is sales every minute.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters
App world
More than 47,000 apps are downloaded every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Mike Segar/Reuters
Linking the network
Linkedin sees more than 100 new accounts created every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Gleb Garanich/Reuters
Web of mobile
Internet is accessed by more than 1,300 new mobile phone users every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Jason Redmond/Reuters
Infectious net
More than 135 botnet infections are recorded every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
Losing identity
More than 20 new users become victim of identity theft every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Tyrone Siu/Reuters
New articles
More than six new Wikipedia articles are published every minute all across the world.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Michael Kooren/Reuters
Double the devices
Today, the number of networked devices equal the global population. By 2015, the number of networked devices will be twice the global population.
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18 things that happen on the Internet every minute
Photographs: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Exponential growth
In 2015, it would take five years to view all video crossing IP networks each second.
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