Stratifyd, which uses data science and big data analytics to provide business insights for its clients, has released a study on the incredible amount of activity that occurs per second on the Internet.
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28,935 gigabytes of data are created each second across the web, according to Stratifyd. This is equal to 2,875,000 songs or 19,212 HD movies.
Other mind-boggling per second stats are:
• 10 million Google searches
• $1,643 in Google ad sales
• 3.1 million e-mails
• 8,508 Facebook comments
• $9,000 in sales on Amazon
• 54,000 Instagram likes
• 6,000 tweets
• 2.4 million Netflix viewers
• 2,400 YouTube viewers
• 800 Apple app downloads
•1,650 Siri requests
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