In 60 seconds, Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, and their friendly carjacking cohorts can boost a high-dollar ride for sale to their fictional employer/nemesis. This is nothing compared to the things that happen on the web in any given 60 second period.
The folks over at ixtract put together a visualization that demonstrates some of the millions of activities that happen on the internet every minute. They include:
- 12 websites hacked
- 14 Spotify songs uploaded
- 20 victims of identity theft
- 50 blogs created
- 70 domains registered
- 100 LinkedIn accounts created
- 320 Twitter accounts created
- 411 Facebook accounts created
- 416 website hack attempts
- 435 email accounts created
- 571 websites created
- 600 YouTube videos uploaded
- 717 new internet users
- 1500 new blog posts
- 3600 Instagram photos shared
- 6600 Flickr photos uploaded
- 1,805 users login to Pinterest
- 20,000 new Tumblr posts
- 27,777 Twitter users login
- 79,364 Facebook wall posts
- 83,000 dollars spent on Amazon
- 100,000 Tweets Tweeted
- 119,444 login to Facebook
- 171,366 GB of data shared
- 173,611 Facebook photos uploaded
- 370,000 Skype calls made
- 510,040 Facebook comments made
- 639,800 GB of data transferred
- 694,445 Google searches
- 1,300,000 YouTube videos viewed
- 20,000,000 Flickr photos viewed
- 86,000,000 Spam emails received
- 168,000,000 Emails sent
Here it is, visualized:
