New York Time Square에는 “Deficit Clock”이 세워져있다. 천문학적 규모인 미국 재정 적자 금액을 실시간으로 보여주고 있다. 물론 추정치이다. 이와 비슷하게 Gary Hayes’ Social Media Count는 인터넷 social media, mobile, games 와 관련된 통계자료를 실시간으로 다음과 같이 보여준다. 아래는 social media에 관한 지난 1년치 통계 자료이다.
물론 이 통계자료도 다음과 같은 데이터를 기반으로 한 추정치이다.
20 hours of video uploaded every minute onto YouTube (source YouTube blog Aug 09)
Facebook 600k new members per day, and photos, videos per month, 700mill & 4 mill respectively (source Inside Facebook Feb 09)
Twitter 18 million new users per year & 4 million tweets sent daily (source TechCrunch Apr 09)
iPolicy UK – SMS messaging has a bright future (Aug 09)
900 000 blogs posts put up every day (source Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008)
UPDATE: YouTube 1Billion watched per day SMH (2009)- counter updated!
Second Life 250k virtual goods made daily, text messages 1250 per second (source Linden Lab release Sep 09)
Money – $5.5 billion on virtual goods (casual & game worlds) even Facebooks gifts make $70 million annually (source Viximo Aug 09)
Flickr has 73 million visitors a month who upload 700 million photos (source Yahoo Mar 09)
Mobile social network subscribers – 92.5 million at the end of 2008, by end of 2013 rising to between 641.6-873.1 million or 132 mill annually (source Informa PDF)
SMS – Over 2.3 trillion messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008 (source Everysingleoneofus sms statistics)
