2010: social media versus email by the numbers
According to Royal Pingdom, 107 trillion email messages were sent in total last year. That works out to 294bn per day. There were nearly 2bn email users and 3bn email accounts, and the ranks of the emailing grew by nearly 500m. In other words, last year, email grew a Facebook last year. Red full article : http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/7042-2010-social-media-versus-email-by-the-numbers