Intel offers snapshot of an ‘Internet minute’

It sometimes it feels like we’re all moving a mile a minute. Now, an Intel infographic showing a 60-second snapshot of the Web demonstrates that life in a connected world moves at a truly staggering pace.

In one minute on the Web, Intel wrote in a company blog post, we send 204 million e-mails, buy about $83,000 in goods on Amazon and send about 100,000 Tweets. Six new Wikipedia articles get published, Google fields 2 million search queries and Facebook gets 6 million views. Multimedia also makes up a huge amount of the data that go back and forth every 60 seconds. For example, Intel estimates that, per minute, YouTube gets 1.3 million video views, Flickr users add 3,000 photos, and Pandora streams 61,141 hours of music. All that, the company said, amounts to about 640,000 GB of data per minute. And with the number of devices that connect to the Internet — not just phones, computers and tablets but also health accessories, home appliances and vehicles — that number’s expected to grow quickly. Intel projects that the number of connected devices will double the world’s population by 2015.