Emails reach 210 billion per day

According to recent research by the website performance business Pingdom, last year there were two hundred and ten billion emails sent each and every day to internet users located all around the world.

This staggering figure looks even more spectacular when it is considered that there are only just under one and half billion email users around the world.

Yet out of all of those emails, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that seventy per cent of them were in fact spam, despite there being an increase in anti spam measures.

The details of the research are as follows,

1.3 billion – The number of email users worldwide.

210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008.

70% – The percentage of emails that are spam.

53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam).

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