Barry Hand

Ping­dom have put together the high­lights of 2009, some pretty fas­ci­nat­ing num­bers here.

Inter­net users

• 1.73 bil­lion – Inter­net users world­wide (Sep­tem­ber 2009).
• 18% – Increase in Inter­net users since the pre­vi­ous year.
• 738,257,230 – Inter­net users in Asia.
• 418,029,796 – Inter­net users in Europe.
• 252,908,000 – Inter­net users in North America.
• 179,031,479 – Inter­net users in Latin Amer­ica / Caribbean.
• 67,371,700 – Inter­net users in Africa.
• 57,425,046 – Inter­net users in the Mid­dle East.
• 20,970,490 – Inter­net users in Ocea­nia / Australia.

Social 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.

Web­sites

• 234 mil­lion – The num­ber of web­sites as of Decem­ber 2009.
• 47 mil­lion – Added web­sites in 2009.

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