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I like press releases full of stats lists. Yesterday’s came from Hotmail, which is celebrating its 10th birthday by sending is an iced cookie the size of a manhole cover, and the news that:
In 1996, 56,041 people signed up for the first Hotmail accounts, roughly the size of Taunton in Somerset.
1 billion emails are delivered to Hotmail inboxes daily – that’s over 11,000 emails per second.
80 million emails are sent by Hotmail users daily, 20 times more than the number of flowers delivered by Interflora in the UK each year.
On average, Hotmail users keep 137 emails in their inbox at any one time, 15 times more than the average number of SMS messages we have stored in our mobile phones.
Hotmail is used in nearly every country in the World and is available in 17 languages.
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