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The Internet In Real Time
Every second, the internet generates a staggering amount of activity. Hover over any card to see the deeper breakdown. Click to pin it open.
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Social Media
Over 5.22 billion people now use social media worldwide — that's 63.8% of the global population. The average user spends 2 hours 19 minutes per day scrolling feeds. TikTok users spend the most time at 34 hours/month, surpassing every other platform.
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Likes
Logins
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Video views
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Photos uploaded
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Active users
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If Facebook were a country, it would be the largest on Earth with 3.07 billion citizens — bigger than China and India combined.
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Likes
Photos uploaded
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New users
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Stories users
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Reels plays
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The most-liked Instagram photo ever is a picture of an egg. It got 60 million likes, beating Kylie Jenner's baby photo.
TikTok
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Videos watched
TikTok
New users
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Videos uploaded
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Likes
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The average TikTok user opens the app 19 times per day and spends 34 hours per month scrolling — more time than any other social app.
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New posts
X (Twitter)
Active users
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Impressions
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The first-ever tweet was posted by Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006: "just setting up my twttr." It later sold as an NFT for $2.9 million.
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Job applications
Connections made
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Posts shared
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Revenue
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Someone is hired through LinkedIn every 3 seconds. The platform has over 1 billion members across 200 countries.
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Comments
Posts
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Upvotes
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Active users
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Reddit has over 100,000 active communities. The r/wallstreetbets subreddit once moved GameStop stock up 1,500% in a single month.
Snapchat
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Active users
Snapchat
Snaps sent
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Stories viewed
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Snapchat users send 5 billion Snaps per day. If each Snap was a postcard, it would circle the Earth 200 times daily.
YouTube
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Shorts views
YouTube
Hours uploaded
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Revenue
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Long-form views
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500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every single minute. You'd need 82 years of non-stop watching just to see one day's uploads.
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Pins saved
Monthly users
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Revenue
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85% of Pinterest users have bought something based on a Pin they saw. The platform drives more referral traffic than Twitter and Reddit combined.
Search
Google processes over 8.5 billion searches per day — roughly 99,000 every single second. Bing handles another 1.2 billion daily with Copilot AI baked in. Together, that's more queries in one minute than the entire internet handled in a full year back in 1998.
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Searches
Revenue
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Gmail emails
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Google's first-ever storage was built from LEGO bricks. Today it processes 8.5 billion searches daily — more per minute than the entire 1998 internet handled in a year.
Bing
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Searches/s
Bing
Market share
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Copilot queries
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Revenue
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Bing was originally codenamed "Kumo" (Japanese for cloud/spider). Microsoft Copilot, built on Bing, now handles 1.6K AI queries per second.
Messaging
WhatsApp delivers 130 billion messages daily, Telegram sends 60 billion, and Messenger handles another 40 billion. Combined with iMessage and Discord, that's over 280 billion messages every 24 hours — enough to fill 500 million books, daily.
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Messages
Media shared
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Voice messages
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Video calls
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WhatsApp was bought by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014 — at the time, it had just 55 employees. That's $345 million per employee.
Telegram
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Messages
Telegram
Active users
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Channels posted
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Stickers sent
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov built the app while in self-imposed exile. A single Telegram group can have up to 200,000 members.
Messenger
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Messages
Messenger
Active users
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Group messages
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Messenger processes 100 billion messages a month. Its AI chatbot "Meta AI" answers questions across 12 languages.
iMessage
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Messages
iMessage
Active devices
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Photos sent
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The blue vs green bubble debate has shaped dating culture — 86% of US teens prefer iMessage, and some say green bubbles are a dealbreaker.
Discord
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Messages/s
Discord
Voice minutes
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Servers active
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Bots triggered
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Discord started as a gaming chat app but now has 200M+ monthly users. The largest server has over 1.1 million members.
Cloud & AI
ChatGPT reached 400 million weekly active users as of early 2026, making it the fastest-adopted technology ever. GitHub Copilot writes 46% of all new code on the platform. Slack accidentally became a $27.7B company while its founders were trying to build a video game.
ChatGPT
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Queries/s
ChatGPT
Revenue
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New users
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ChatGPT reached 100 million users in just 2 months — the fastest adoption of any technology ever, beating TikTok (9 months) and Instagram (2.5 years).
Zoom
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Meetings started/s
Zoom
Participants joining
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Revenue
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During COVID lockdowns, Zoom went from 10 million to 300 million daily participants in just 3 months. Its stock rose 400% in 2020.
GitHub
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Commits pushed/s
GitHub
PRs opened
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Repos created
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Copilot suggestions
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GitHub hosts over 420 million repositories. The site went down for 24 hours in 2018 due to a 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack — the largest ever recorded at the time.
Slack
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Messages/s
Slack
Workflows run
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Revenue
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Slack was accidentally created while building a video game called Glitch. The game failed, but the internal chat tool became a $27.7 billion company.
E-Commerce
Global e-commerce hit $6.8 trillion in 2025. Amazon alone does $22,727 every second, shipping 4.8 billion packages a year. Alibaba's Singles' Day generates more in 24 hours than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined.
Amazon
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Revenue/s
Amazon
Orders
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Prime members
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Packages shipped
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Amazon delivers 1.6 million packages a day in the UK alone. Every minute of downtime costs the company an estimated $220,000 in lost sales.
Shopify
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Shopify
Orders
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Stores active
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Products sold
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Shopify stores have collectively sold over $1 trillion. The platform processes more e-commerce volume than all but Amazon in the US.
eBay
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eBay
Items sold
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Listings created
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Active buyers
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The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. The founder asked the buyer if they knew it was broken. They said: "I collect broken laser pointers."
Alibaba
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Revenue/s
Alibaba
Transactions
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Cross-border orders
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Alibaba's Singles Day (11/11) generates more revenue in 24 hours than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined — over $85 billion in a single day.
Travel & Rides
Booking.com lists over 28 million properties across 220+ countries. Uber completes 9.4 billion trips annually — that's 277 rides starting every second. Google Maps processes 1.5 billion km of navigation every single day.
Booking.com
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Revenue/s
Booking.com
Nights booked
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Properties listed
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Booking.com lists 28 million properties — that's more places to stay than the entire population of Australia. The most-booked city? Paris.
Uber
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Rides/s
Uber
Revenue
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Eats orders
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Active drivers
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The longest Uber ride ever recorded went from Virginia to Oregon — 2,800 miles, costing $1,635. The trip took about 40 hours.
Airbnb
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Bookings/s
Airbnb
Revenue
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Nights booked
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Listings
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Airbnb started when the founders rented air mattresses in their apartment. The company name literally means "air bed and breakfast."
Google Maps
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Route requests/s
Google Maps
Places searched
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Street View loads
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Google Maps Street View cars have driven over 16 million km — enough to circle the Earth 400 times. The service covers 100+ countries.
Payments
Digital payments processed over $15 trillion globally in 2025. The first Bitcoin purchase was 2 pizzas for 10,000 BTC — now worth over $1 billion. Stripe processes more than $1 trillion annually, founded by two teenagers from Ireland.
PayPal
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Transactions/s
PayPal
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Active accounts
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Revenue
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PayPal was originally called Confinity and was meant to beam money between Palm Pilots. Elon Musk merged his startup X.com with it in 2000.
Stripe
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Payments/s
Stripe
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Revenue
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Countries
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Stripe processes over $1 trillion in payments annually. The company was started by two Irish brothers, Patrick and John Collison, when they were just 19 and 21.
Bitcoin
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Transactions/s
Bitcoin
Hash rate (EH/s)
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Volume
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New wallets
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The first Bitcoin purchase was 10,000 BTC for two pizzas in 2010 — worth $22. Those same coins would be worth over $1 billion today.
Apple Pay
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Payments/s
Apple Pay
Countries
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Merchants
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Apple Pay now accounts for 10% of all global card transactions. In the UK, contactless payments make up 90% of in-store purchases.
Streaming
Spotify has 100M+ songs but 20% have never been played. Netflix subscribers watch 190 million hours daily — that's 21,600 years of non-stop viewing, every single day. Disney+ hit 150M subscribers faster than any streamer besides Netflix.
Spotify
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Hours streamed/s
Spotify
Songs played
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Podcasts played
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Revenue
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Spotify has 100+ million songs but 20% of them have never been played even once. The most-streamed song ever is "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd with 4.6 billion plays.
Netflix
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Hours streamed/s
Netflix
New subscribers
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Revenue
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Titles watched
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Netflix subscribers watch 190 million hours of content daily — that's 21,600 years of non-stop viewing every single day. The platform saves $1B/year thanks to its recommendation engine.
Disney+
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Hours streamed/s
Disney+
New subscribers
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Revenue
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Disney+ hit 150 million subscribers faster than any streaming service other than Netflix. The platform has content from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.
Gaming
Steam hit a record 39.7 million concurrent users in early 2026. The total value of unplayed Steam games is estimated at $19 billion. Roblox has 70 million daily players, and some kid developers earn over $10M a year.
Steam
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Revenue/s
Steam
Games sold
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Concurrent players
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Achievements unlocked
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The average Steam user has 12 games in their library but has only played 5 of them. The total backlog across all users is worth an estimated $19 billion.
Twitch
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Hours watched/s
Twitch
Chat messages
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Clips created
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Revenue
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The longest Twitch stream lasted 63 days straight. The "Kappa" emote has been used over 300 billion times — it's the most-used emote in internet history.
Roblox
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Revenue/s
Roblox
Active players
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Hours played
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Robux spent
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Roblox has 70 million daily active users — mostly aged 9-12. Some top developers on the platform earn over $10 million a year making games.
Gambling
The global online gambling market is worth $106 billion annually and growing at 11.7% CAGR. In the UK, the industry generates £15 billion in gross gambling yield. The average UK bettor places 26 bets per month.
Online Gambling
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Revenue/s
Online Gambling
Bets placed
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Sports bets
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Casino spins
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UK GGY
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The UK is the world's largest regulated gambling market. The average UK bettor places 26 bets per month, with football accounting for 45% of all sports wagers.
How We Built This
Every number on this page is derived from publicly available data. Here's our methodology for calculating per-second internet activity.
1 Data Collection
We gather figures from official sources:
- Company earnings reports & SEC filings
- Platform press releases & newsrooms
- Industry reports (Statista, eMarketer, GSMA)
- App store analytics & Sensor Tower
- Blockchain explorers & network data
2 Per-Second Calculation
Annual or daily figures are converted to per-second rates:
- Annual ÷ 365.25 ÷ 24 ÷ 3,600 = per second
- Daily figures ÷ 86,400 = per second
- Monthly active users ÷ 2,592,000 = per second
- Revenue figures use latest quarterly run-rates
3 Continuous Updates
We refresh data as new reports become available:
- Quarterly earnings drive revenue updates
- Platform milestones trigger user count refreshes
- All figures reflect 2025/2026 latest available data
- Historical comparisons use consistent methodology
Data sourced from public reports and averaged to per-second rates. Some figures are estimates based on annual data.
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