Friday 13 February 2009

58 Trillion Spam Emails Sent in 2008

There were 58 trillion spam emails sent in 2008, according to a recent report by web-monitoring company Pingdom. More than 210 billion emails were sent every day last year, but 70% of these were spam messages that ended up in the inboxes of 1.3 billion emailers around the world. The report also revealed that Asia is the continent with the most people connected to the interweb, with an estimated 578 million online. Europe is in second place with 384 million, and North America is third with 248 million. The number of websites on the internet as of 2008 was 186,727,854. Around 31.5 million new sites were added last year. Blogging continues to boom, with more than 900,000 posts added every day. There were 133 million blogs on the web, with the total number of posts for last year coming to 329 million.

900,000 posts? 133 million blogs? So what are the chances of anyone reading this? I'm too scared to work it out!

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