2012 Internet Trends - KPCB/Mary Meeker
Source: kpcb.com
Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The Internet
Great infographic from Business Insider on what happens on the Internet during 60 seconds.
The biggest chunk is consumed by the following services
- 164 million emailsÂ
- 11 million IM-s
- 694,445 Google searches
- 695,000 Facebook status updates
- 510,040 Facebook comments
- 370,000 Skype voice calls (actually I think that with paid calls comes around 506k as per latest published stats)
- 98,000 Tweets
- $219,000 PayPal payments
- 13,000 iPhone apps downloaded
- 950 purchases on eBay
- 925 iPhone 4s-s sold
Facebook statuses are slightly above Google searches. Skype is pretty big (consider about 25-30% IM market share also). There are more iPhones sold then Twitter and LinkedIn accounts created combined. Wow.
The origins of social media
The Economist (How Luther went viral) draws interesting parallels with the social media movement we know today and the spread of Reformation 500 years ago. The technology of the time (printing press) was important but so was the wider sharing of media among social circles. Thus the television, internet, Twitter and Facebook today merely enable a faster and arguably wider distribution of media and new channels.
The marvels of communication technology in the present have produced a false consciousness about the past—even a sense that communication has no history, or had nothing of importance to consider before the days of television and the internet. Social media are not unprecedented: rather, they are the continuation of a long tradition. Modern digital networks may be able to do it more quickly, but even 500 years ago the sharing of media could play a supporting role in precipitating a revolution.
