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What people do online


Johannesburg, 16 May 2012

Pieter Blaauw, security consultant at Performanta, speaking at ITWeb's Security Summit yesterday, revealed what people spend some of their time doing on the Internet every day.

* Some 294 billion e-mails are sent
* Two million blogs are posted - equivalent to 770 years' worth of Time magazine
* Some 172 million people visit Facebook
* More iPhones are sold than babies born
* About 864 000 hours are uploaded to YouTube
* Twitter receives 40 million visitors

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