Facebook reaches 10 Billion Photos
Facebook reports that people have uploaded 10 billion photo to the site:
“Now, that’s a big number, but we actually store four image sizes for each uploaded photo, so that’s over 40 billion files.”
Other stats:
* 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day
* We have just over one petabyte of photo storage
* We serve over 15 billion photo images per day
* Photo traffic now peaks at over 300,000 images served per second
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=30695603919
Info via the iLibrarian blog:
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/
Posted by Rich
