What Happens on the Internet During A Single Minute?

What Happens on the Internet

The world is an electronic one. Today, it’s all about the microchip and the megabit. The internet is the most advanced form of communications tool we’ve ever created. The sheer size and scale is staggering. Right now, over two billion of the seven billion-strong population are connected to the internet. And this is only set to increase.

In a New York minute…

Take the following stats into consideration. One minute on the internet results in the following:

640 terabytes of data transferred. Which is a lot.

So what does this mean in a way that we can understand? Well, we can break this down over several forms. For example, this included over 2 million Google search queries. 1,300 new mobile users will connect to the web also in these 60 seconds.

Now let’s take a look at the social aspect.

In terms of social media, the following is done every minute right now:

  • 100,000 tweets sent
  • Over 320 new Twitter accounts set up
  • 6 million Facebook views
  • Over 100 new LinkedIn accounts set up

What about visual media? YouTube will have accumulated around 1.3 million video views, with an additional 30 hours of video content uploaded. Flickr will have 3,000 new photographs and over 20 million existing photo views. They’ll also be 6 additional Wikipedia entries created. Audio is no slouch either. In one minute, you’re looking at 61,000 hours of music uploaded.

In terms of business, then the last 60 seconds will have netted Amazon an amazing £50,000. That confirmation email you just got from them when you purchased something?

Just one of the 204 million e-mails that are being sent during a single minute. The remainder of those 640 terabytes will comprise the 47,000 app downloads on a range of devices, from mobile to desktop.

Of course, all this comes with a risk. It also includes almost 140 botnet infections, which severely hinder communications with Adware, Spyware and spam (amongst others).

Every minute, there’s 20 new victims of identity theft. Data on the web is not always secured. Those who know where to look and how to find personal information can take it in that single internet minute.

Even more amazing is that by 2015, it’s estimated that we will have a number of networked devices surpassing the total world population of Earth by a factor of two. Video data would comprise of five years’ worth each passing second at that point. There will most likely be no location on the planet that is not connected in some way to a network.

Big numbers indeed.

As it seems with the progression of other social media platforms, such as Pinterest and Instagram the world of the internet and online communications is only set to continue to grow and surpass any statistical predictions that can be made.

What does the future of the internet look like? The answer is, nobody knows. Only educated guesses and assumptions can be made.

About the author:
Written by Jake Messer on behalf of HANDD, providing expert online managed file transfer solutions for your data.