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126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.
4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user).
350 million – People on Facebook.
50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.
Sure, but from a business perspective, those users in Asia may also be harder to monetize, depending on your market and business model. Even Google apparently had issues monetizing China, for instance, cyber-warfare and censorship aside. But you're right, web startups should definitely be looking more to Asia these days.
I bet the 10.3% of internet users in Latin America represent a bigger business opportunity than the 14.6% in North America, due to the difference in market saturation.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 42.3 ms ] threadSocial media 126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse). 84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men. 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009) 57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States. 4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user). 350 million – People on Facebook. 50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day. 500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.
148,000 - New zombie computers created per day
81% - The percentage of emails that were spam
Statistics like these, with overstated and confusing precision, bug me. Why not say 180 Million?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
This is about how many people there were in the world 100 years ago.