In August of 2021, Statista reported that in an “internet minute,” Facebook users shared over 240,000 photos, Twitter users posted 575,000 tweets, and Discord users sent 668,000 messages. In the same internet minute, TikTok users watched 167M videos, Facebook Live videos received 44M views, and users conducted 5.7M Google searches.
Alexandra Sukin • Roadmap: Curating the internet
- The average person spends 2 hours and 24 minutes on social media every day.
- The average American checks their mobile device 159 times a day .
- Users will spend 4 trillion hours on social media this year.
- 46% of Americans say they watch more user-generated content on social media than they watch movies and television on streaming services.
- Americans spe