By: Ailsa Julian
How long does it take you to press one key on your keyboard? About a second? Less than a second? Well for every half a second, the internet is growing. The internet is bigger than it was a moment ago, and again, and again, and again, see, as you are reading this it is growing and growing. Have you ever wondered, when you are online, just how many other people are online at the same moment, or just how many people have posted a status update on Facebook, or photo on Instagram at exactly the same second as you, well you can now find out using this very clever website.
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Using the above website, you can witness what is called the ‘Internet in Real Time’, the web page combines the data from all the most popular social media sites available on the internet and shows the growing database of users and rising amount of activity over real time. It will show you anything you want to know, for example how many photos are uploaded on Instagram every single day (70 million), or how many statuses are posted on Facebook every day (4.5 billion), and it does so in a visual and interesting way, rather than just a list of words and facts.
The idea of The Internet in Real Time after was created after researchers carried out some research regarding internet data and found it all very hard and complicated to interpret. They wanted to create something that would be more visually attractive and easier to read for all internet users who were interested in these facts.
Not only does it focus on popular social media sites, but it also reveals data about apps such as Tinder. It is interesting to learn just how popular this network is. Tinder receives around 600 million swipes every single day which is an incredibly high amount for a data app. There is also WhatsApp, which is a free messaging service used by most people who own a smart phone. WhatsApp gain 1 million new users every single day, and 27 billion messages pass through the system daily, which isn’t surprising when Facebook bought the company for $19 billion.
