8 Billion Minutes Wasted on Facebook, Everyday

Posted By Keith Dsouza On October 21, 2009 @ 4:46 pm In Tech News | No Comments

In the past we have told you about tools that allow you to measure the amount of time [1] you spend on various websites [2]. Considering a recent report in the Web2.0 summit, we definitely urge you to start using them :-).

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TechCrunch has created a summed up report [3], from a presentation by Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s VP of Engineering. According to him:

  • Users spend 8 billion minutes online everyday using Facebook
  • There are some 2 billion pieces of content shared every week on the service
  • Users upload 2 billion photos each month
  • There are over 20 billion photos now on Facebook
  • During peak times, Facebook serves 1.2 million photos a second
  • Yesterday alone, Facebook served 5 billion API calls
  • There are 1.2 million users for every engineer at Facebook [4]

8 Billion minutes a day is definitely a huge number, considering that we mortals only have 1440 minutes a day. To give you a perspective, Facebook has 300 million users [5] and according to the presented data, an average user spends a minimum of 27 minutes on Facebook. This number may not be entirely correct, since several millions users do not actively use Facebook everyday. We can safely assume that a average user spends 30-35 minutes on Facebook.

The fact that Facebook has 30000 servers [6] to handle these requests, make them more reliable than the smaller players, and gives users a better experience while using their service.

How may minutes do you spend on Facebook? Do let us know about it through your comments.


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[1] measure the amount of time: http://techie-buzz.com/featured/personal-time-management-software-to-track-computer-usage-manic-time.html

[2] you spend on various websites: http://techie-buzz.com/tips-and-tricks/5-useful-firefox-extensions-to-analyze-and-track-your-internet-usage.html

[3] created a summed up report: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/web-2-0-summit-facebooks-vp-of-engineering-on-scaling-facebook/

[4] Facebook: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/facebook

[5] 300 million users: http://techie-buzz.com/social-networking/facebook-crosses-300-million-users.html

[6] Facebook has 30000 servers: http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/facebook-has-30000-datacenter-servers.html

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