Facebook Hit 10 Billion Photos

Posted by Jerry Ong |

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Oct 16

Yesterday Facebook announced that they have hit the 10 billion photo milestone. Due to every photo upload will generate 4 different image sizes, this make the 40 billion photo files, store on Facebook.

Doug Beaver provided some other interesting statistics including:

# 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to facebook every day
# Facebook have just over one petabyte of photo storage
# they serve over 15 billion photo images per day
# Photo traffic now peaks at over 300,000 images served per second

Facebook is currently the largest online photo storage site, dominating even the highly popular photo sharing site: Flickr.

Jerry Says……

Now the question, will one day Facebook Photo apps take over other photo hosting company market like flickr, ImageShack and etc. ?

With this great photo upload statistic that facebook had, they should probably consider partner with some big boy in photo print industry like Kodak which allowed facebook users to direct print photos from their albums, this could be generate a not bad revenue for facebook too, don’t you think so?

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Susan on October 17th, 2008 1:36 am

Not too sure, although I’m finding Facebook is becoming even more helpful in being a hub for sharing my photos, stories with friends and so much more. I’m loading photos like crazy!