Facebook Photos Hits the 10 Billion Mark
Wow! 10 billion photos uploaded on Facebook is certainly a lot considering that it is not really a photo uploading site per se but rather a social networking site. Facebook’s Engineering Blog reported that there are now over 10 billion photos uploaded on the site. According to Caroline McCarthy of CNET.News’ those figures are more than Photobucket’s 6.2 billion photos and Flickr’s 2 billion. And then again, we repeat Facebook is a social network and not a photo uploading/sharing site.
To add some interesting stats on these Facebook photos:
- 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day
- one petabyte of photo storage
- over 15 billion photo images served per day
- Photo traffic now peaks at over 300,000 images served per second
Why is this happening? Simple.
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