Pingdom’s 2012 Internet Stats

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Some additional highlights …

2.2 Billion of us are using email to send 144 Billion daily messages of which 61% are considered non-essential. 68.8% of mail is considered spam of which 50.76% was related to pharma.

Brazil is the most active country on Facebook with over 85K posts per month. There are an average of 2.7 likes per active monthly user on Facebook.

Google+ has 135 million active users, but generates 5 Billion +1 clicks per day!

Much more here

BTW, games are serious in China

The online gaming market reportedly represented over 90 percent of revenue, bringing in $9.1 billion (RMB 56.96 billion). Mobile gaming still represented a small part of the market, with just $520 million (RMB 3.24 billion) in revenue. Dedicated gaming devices, which operate in a legal grey area, accounted for just 0.1 percent of sales.

Looking ahead, the report expects the Chinese game market to swell to $21.7 billion (RMB 135.2 billion) by 2017 with a projected annual growth rate of 12.4 percent.

via The Next Web.