Posts Tagged ‘billion’
Let’s Count Tweets: We’re Almost At 10 Billion
If you use Twitter, you’re contributing to the next major milestone on our collective home, the interwebz. Roughly one year ago, popular micro-blogging service Twitter reached what you could call its first major milestone — one billion tweets. In mid-October of 2009, we reported that Twitter’s “tweet count” was fast approaching five billion. Impressive, eh?
In approximately one day, Twitter’s expected to fly past the ten billion tweet marker, signaling to the world the website is still very much in the minds of internet users, and not loosing some of its “oomph” as many would claim (we’re Switzerland in this case — not taking sides). More »
Apple iTunes Store To Hit 10 Billion Downloads Soon
9.99 billion. The number represents the amount of songs downloaded to date on Apple’s iTunes platform, and it’s quickly expected to strike the 10 billion milestone later today/early Thursday, at the rate it’s currently going. As we’ve mentioned before, he/she who is lucky enough to download the 10-billionth song will receive $10,000 in iTunes store credit — less than what Apple gave away for the one billionth app downloaded, which included $10,000 in iTunes store credit, an iPod Touch, and a MacBook Pro.
At the current rate, the counter displays over 100 downloads per second, which could or could not be factual — but don’t time your iTunes purchase by what you see on the site — it’s based on a calculation and does not actually count in real-time.
Just sayin’.
Apple iTunes Nearing 10 Billionth Song Download
Back in 2009, Apple offered up $10,000 in iTunes credit and some other nifty gifts to the lucky soul who had purchased the one billionth application on the Apple App Store. Now, another milestone is fast approaching — the 10 billionth song downloaded on iTunes.
As is typical, the lucky person who downloads the 10 billionth song will also be receiving a $10,000 iTunes gift card. As of this writing, the download counter is at 9.8 billion downloads and quickly climbing. We could see a winner very, very soon. More »
Verizon Takes Over a Half-Billion Loss Last Quarter
Despite taking in a cool $27 billion in revenue last quarter, with nearly 2.2 million new subscriptions in the quarter, Verizon Wireless has reported a loss of $653 million yesterday, blaming a $3 billion expense related to the company’s layoffs last year (severance, etc.).
With the $3 billion expense aside, Verizon is actually doing well, and the company’s customer-base continues to grow. At the end of 2008, Q4 earning came in at $24.63 billing — last year, $27.1 billion — surely significant growth. More »
Twitter’s Five Billionth Tweet Sent by San Francisco Man
“Oh lord.” Those two words composed Twitter’s five billionth tweet, just under a day ago on the ultra-popular micro-blogging service. The tweet, sent by a San Francisco man named Robin who was responding to a fellow Twitter-addict comes just days after we initially reported Twitter was coming close to this mark on October 15th.
Twitter has seen incredible success since taking off and becoming mainstream what seemed to be late last year. Tweets are transmitted by the hundreds per second worldwide. So, you might be wondering — how many Tweets have been transmitted since the 5 billionth? About 22 million as of this writing (higher by the time you’re reading this, of course).
Apple’s App Store Downloads Reaches Two Billion and Counting
Back on April 21st (the day we launched), we posted about how Apple’s App Store was quickly approaching 1 billion downloads. Today, Apple has reported that downloads have reached 2 billion and continue to climb across 77 countries and 50 million customers. The App Store selection is now at about 85,000, being made by over 125,000 developers.
According to the press release, “The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it.”
With this kind of growth, we could see the App Store surpass the 3 billion download mark and 100,000 Apps mark in even less time. Last time we were provided with an official App count was earlier this month on September 9th — the count was in the 70,000’s-range.
More apps, please!
Firefox Dominating The World: Approaches One Billion Downloads
It’s no doubt that Mozilla’s Firefox browser is the creme de la creme of internet browsers, and it’s with no surprise that states that downloads are quickly approaching the one billion mark. It may even be Friday (or Saturday) in which the barrier is broken (likely, Friday).
You yourself can keep track of the figures by following Firefox Counter on Twitter. As of this writing, the counter is displaying 999,182,603 downloads and increasing at a rate of roughly 14.5 downloads per second!
Now, you may be asking yourself; how is Mozilla celebrating this milestone? They’re launching a website, of course. Users will be able to visit www.onebillionplusyou.com and find detailed information on the one billion downloads milestone.
Congratulations, Mozilla. Can we have Firefox 4 now, please?
[ TechCrunch ]
1 Billion YouTube Streams per day?
According to TechCrunch, they have confirmed that YouTube tops 1 Billion video streams in one day. To put that into perspective, thats one stream for every user on the internet – per day. One thing is for sure, it’s not cheap to fund that much bandwidth. In May, I questioned YouTube’s future, and I still do. Yes, it’s a very popular site, but at the end of the day it requires money to keep up and running. It’s not rocket science that YouTube brings in no where near the amount of funds to cover operating costs through advertising on the site. What does that mean? Well, it means the money is coming from elsewhere (Google). Soon enough, I feel YouTube (if not already) will become a waste of money for Google. Waste?! Remember, despite the fact that Google portrays itself as “helper of the internet”, they’re a business.
This is a milestone for YouTube. Hopefully, they can maintain their success and continue serving millions with video sharing.
[ source: TechCrunch ]
Apple’s App Download Near 1 Billion.
Apple's Homepage on Wednesday
Apple is nearing the 1 billion milestone (that’s 1,000,000,000!) for app downloads for the iPhone/iPod touch. Don’t eyeball the counter as it nears 1 billion though – because it isn’t accurate. The counter counts based on when Apple has calculated that the one billionth app would have been downloaded, which appears to be soon.
The lucky individual who downloads that one billionth app will receive:
- One 17″ MacBook Pro
- One 32GB iPod Touch
- One $10,000 USD iTunes Gift Card
- One Apple Time Capsule
Total value of the prizes equates to about: $13,746 USD.
Good Luck!