Pingdom
According to AFP, a Web monitoring service, Pingdom, published a study last month that stated that internet users sent a total of 107 trillion e-mails last year - most of them spam.
The company added that on an average, 294 billion e-mails messages were sent per day, and about 89 per cent were spam. Furthermore, it said there are 2.9 billion e-mail accounts worldwide and 263 million blogs. The total number of websites is 255 million, Pingdom said, up 21.4 million over the previous year. The Web service also published figures on the growth of Twitter and Facebook.
According to Pingdom, Twitter added 100 million new accounts last year and had a total of 175 million as of September. It said that 25 billion messages, or "tweets", were sent in 2010. Facebook, on the other hand, had nearly 600 million users at the end of the year with 250 million joining in 2010.
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