160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.<\/p>\n
Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons<\/a> of CO2.<\/p>\n 9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam.<\/p>\n Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).<\/p>\n A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers.<\/p>\n There are\u00a0more than\u00a01 billion computers in use. <\/p>\n There are some 2 billion TV sets in use.<\/p>\n There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.<\/p>\n The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.<\/p>\n Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.<\/p>\n Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.<\/p>\n Facebook has more than 1.3 billion registered users; about 100 million of those are fake profiles.<\/p>\n About 3 billion people connect to the Internet, 850 million of them speak English. See list of Internet languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n Google indexed it’s 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World Wide Web (the public Internet).<\/p>\n One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle.<\/p>\n Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.<\/p>\n The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year.<\/p>\n Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels<\/a>.<\/p>\n The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.<\/p>\n The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.<\/p>\n