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Some interesting statistics recently include Facebook passing the 400 million user mark, Twitter hitting 50 million tweets per day, and YouTube viewers watching one billion videos per day. Impressive on their own, these numbers only scratch the surface of numbers when internet-related stats are looked at collectively.

Jesse Thomas did just that in his video, State of the Internet. Created and animated by Thomas with data from multiple sources, it highlights some remarkable figures of the internet as we know it today. It’s a must-watch video for anyone trying to wrap their minds around just how immersed web technologies have become in our everyday lives.

Some of the most intriguing figures shared in the video:

- There are 1.73 billion internet users worldwide as of September 2009.
- There are 1.4 billion e-mail users worldwide and on average, we collectively send 247 billion e-mails per day. Unfortunately, 200 billion of those are spam e-mails.
- As of December 2009, there are 234 million websites.
- Facebook gets 260 billion pageviews per month, which equals six million page views per minute and 37.4 trillion pageviews in a year.
- Last year, 90 trillion emails sent last year.

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