10 Billion Photos Uploaded to Facebook


Doug Beaver (Facebook engineer) writes that there are over 10 billion photos uploaded to Facebook! And, here are some statistics:

  • 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day
  • Over one petabyte of photo storage
  • Facebook serves over 15 billion photo images per day
  • Photo traffic now peaks at over 300,000 images served per second

Wow!