Ever wondered what happens on the internet every second? Here are 9 things you probably didn’t know

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New Delhi: The internet is a boon to knowledge. At any given moment, millions of people are searching, tweeting and emailing all at once. However, it was difficult to absorb the volume of activity on the internet every second, until now.

Now, a live map created by Internet Live Stats, a unit of the Real Time Statistics Project, shows every activity that is happening around the globe on the internet with every passing second.

As per Internet Live Stats, about 46.1 percent of the world is logged in, which is about 3.4 billion people – although there are still 4 billion people without any access to the internet, it shows. 

Compare this to about five years ago when there was just 31.8 percent surfing the web in the world, and we know the pace at which the worldwide web is expanding. Although one second doesn't even count in the real world, it holds quite a lot of importance on the internet.

  So what really happens on the internet every second? Here are some figures which will blow your mind.

• Every second, more than 54,000 Google searchers are conducted, 7,000+ Tweets are shared and more than 2 million emails are sent, 67 percent of which are deemed spam.

• About 6,000 to 7,000 tweets are shared every second which equals to more than 350,000 every minute, 500 million per day and around 200 billion tweets every year. The first tweet hit the internet on March 21, 2006 and it took them 3 years to reach its billionth tweet. Now it takes less than two days for one billion tweets to be sent. 

• On any given day, Google receives more than 3 billion searches, which averages to 54,000 queries a second – that is over 90 billion each month and about 1.2 trillion a year worldwide. When the search giant first debuted in 1998, it was only serving 10,000 search queries each day. 

• In addition to searching, tweeting and emailing, every second 729 photos are uploaded on Instagram.
• Every second, one hour of video is uploaded and 125,406 videos are viewed on YouTube.

• 2,177 calls are made via Skype each second.
• At any given second there are 20,000 people on Facebook and five people open their accounts. Every 60 seconds 510 comments are posted, 293,000 statuses updated and 136,000 photos are shared.
• A total of 11,593 files are uploaded and shared on Dropbox.
• Although television streaming is fairly new, Netflix reports it has 81 million users across the globe that fetch 1,450 hours of TV shows and movies each second. And about 41 percent of its members pull something up to watch on the platform every day.