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 toQuartz, a business publication.
Lets 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.
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Data transfer
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About 639,800 gigabyte of Internet protocol data is transferred every minute all across the world.
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Mail growth
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More than 200 million emails are sent every minute all across the world.
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Video uploads
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More than 30 hours of videos are uploaded on the Internet every minute all across the world.
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Video views
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More than 1.3 million video views are recorded every minute all across the world.
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Search queries
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More than 2 million search queries are recorded every minute all across the world.
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World of Facebook
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Facebook sees 277,000 logins and 6 million views every minute all across the world.
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Tweeting the tweets
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Twitter sees more than 320 new accounts and 100,000 new tweets every minute all across the world.
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Snapshot
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Flickr records more than 20 million views of photos every minute all across the world.
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Music to the ears
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Pandora, a free and personalised radio, plays more than 61,141 hours of music every minute all across the world.
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Retail rush
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Amazon records more than $83,000 is sales every minute.
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App world
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More than 47,000 apps are downloaded every minute all across the world.
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Linking the network
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Linkedin sees more than 100 new accounts created every minute all across the world.
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Web of mobile
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Internet is accessed by more than 1,300 new mobile phone users every minute all across the world.
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Infectious net
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More than 135 botnet infections are recorded every minute all across the world.
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Losing identity
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More than 20 new users become victim of identity theft every minute all across the world.
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New articles
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More than six new Wikipedia articles are published every minute all across the world.
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Double the devices
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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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Exponential growth
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In 2015, it would take five years to view all video crossing IP networks each second.
