In 2009, Facebook’s traffic grew by 66% and Twitter’s by 47%.

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China's internet population has reached 404 million, up from 384 million at the end of 2009, and the number of people accessing the internet with mobile phones there has reached 233 million.

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More than 8 million visits were made to news websites every minute, on the night Barack Obama won the US presidential election. On the first day of the 2010 Football World Cup, there were 12 million visits per minute.

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Apple recently announced that its App Store now offers 225,000 apps which collectively have been downloaded 5 billion times.

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E-books represented about 1.5% of consumer book sales in 2009 in North America.

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Americans spent $6.4 billion on music in 2009, the most in the world. More than 2/5ths of this was spent on digital files.

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The average YouTube user spends 15 minutes a day on the website, compared with 5 hours that the average TV viewer spends in front of the box.

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Five months after it was launched, users of Blippy - a Twitter-like service that broadcasts what people buy - share $1.5 million in transactions every week.

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With 48 billion unique images, Facebook houses the world's largest photo collection.

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Facebook users are adding photos at a rate of nearly 1 billion unique images a week.

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70% of Facebook's users are from outside the US.

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Users share more than 25 billion pieces of information with Facebook each month.

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Facebook flashed more than 176 billion banner ads at users in the first three months of this year — more than any other site.

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Just a month after launching Open Graph, Facebook is quickly approaching the point where it will process 100 million unique clicks of a Like button each day.

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More than 1 in 4 people who browse the Internet not only have a Facebook account but have returned to the site within the past 30 days.

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Two-thirds of Chinese households with internet connections have bought an everyday item online in the past 6 months.

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Hulu streamed more than 1 billion videos in December 2009.

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Americans buy 7 billion physical cards but send only 500 million e-cards a year.

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YouTube is expected to generate as much as $700 million in revenue this year.

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Consumers in Britain bought 113 million physical music albums in 2009 and only 16 million digital ones.

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