Educational Origami

This is an interesting post from Mashable that describes the web in numbers.

http://mashable.com/2009/04/17/web-in-numbers-social-media/

Here are some goodies

Youtube March 09 (1)

• 100 million monthly viewers in the US. 
• 6.3 billion videos viewed

Facebook

• 100 million to 200 million users in less than 8 months.(2)
• from February 2008 to February 2009. (3)(6)

1. 2,721%  growth in Italy
2. 999% in Spain
3. 607% in Belgium
   
4. 518% in France
5. 499% in Switzerland.

Facebook vs MySpace at end of 2008 (4)

• Facebook 65.7 million unique visitors
• MySpace’s 54.1 million.

Twitter (5)

• grew 76.8 percent just from February to March
• yearly growth rate? 1,382 percent.
• 7 million unique monthly visitors.
• @ current growth 100 million visitors same time next year.

References:

1. http://mashable.com/2009/04/08/facebook-from-100-to-200-million-users-in-8-months/
2. http://mashable.com/2009/04/17/web-in-numbers-social-media/
3. http://mashable.com/2009/04/15/facebook-europe-2/
4. http://mashable.com/2009/02/19/facebook-bigger-than-myspace-in-us/
5. http://mashable.com/2009/03/16/twitter-growth-rate-versus-facebook/
6. http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2774