A lot can happen in an internet minute. This stat-heavy graphic looks at the epic numbers behind the online services billions use every day. In our everyday lives, not much may happen in a minute. But when gauging the depth of internet activity occurring all at once, it can be extraordinary.
Today, around five billion internet users exist across the globe. This annual infographic from Domo captures just how much activity is going on in any given minute, and the amount of data being generated by users. Collectively, these produce unimaginable quantities of user activity and associated data.
As these facts show, Big Tech companies have quite the influence over our lives. That influence is becoming difficult to ignore, and draws increasing media and political attention. And some see this attention as a plausible explanation for why Facebook changed their name —to dissociate from their old one in the process. One tangible measure of this influence is the massive amount of revenue Big Tech companies bring in. Much of the revenue that these elite trillion-dollar stocks generate can be traced back to all the activity on their various networks and platforms.
In other words, the 5. Here are just some areas that have experienced impressive growth:. For instance, in , there were only 14 million internet users across the globe. But today, there are over 14 million just in Chile. That said, the total addressable market still has some room left. This comes out to an astonishing new users on a per minute basis. With this growth trajectory in mind, we can expect future figures to become even more astonishing.
But the human mind is known to be bad at interpreting large numbers , so in future editions, the internet minute figures may need to be stripped down to the internet second.
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