Amazing social media, mobile and internet stats

• We create more information every 2 days than in the history of the planet before 2004
• It would take 28 years without sleeping to watch all of the video uploaded to YouTube this week
• At Facebook’s current growth rate it will exceed the world’s population by 2014
• 10 years ago it took 72 hours to download the Godfather today it takes 10 minutes, It still takes 3 hours to watch
• 12,000 books fit onto 8 Kindles, an entire library in your backpack
• There are now 2,000,000 apps for smartphones
• 1910: mass media spreads news faster than word of mouth, 2011: word of mouth spreads news faster than mass media
• Teens watch more video online than on DVDs and don’t know a world without the internet
• By 2017, there will be 7 trillion connected devices, 1000 for each person alive
• While you read this 150,000 messages were sent on Twitter, 15 million text messages were sent, 300 million email messages were sent, Ashton Hutcher gained 6 new followers on Twitter and 5 cats did something really cute on YouTube