Facebook Surpasses 10 Billion Photos

This evening Facebook announced that they have surpassed the 10 billion photo milestone. In terms of files, that is over 40 billion files since there is 4 image sizes store for each individual photo. Doug Beaver provided some other interesting statistics including:

  • There are between 2 and 3 Terabytes of photos being uploaded daily.
  • Over 15 billion photos are served each day
  • Over one petabyte (1,024 Terabytes) of photos have been stored

Facebook is currently the largest online photo storage site, dominating even the highly popular photo sharing site: Flickr.

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