E-mail Statistics

E-mail

Mail sent via Internet

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Spam

What is it? What can you do with it?

247 billion emails were sent each day in 2009.

247 billion messages per day means more than 2.8 million emails are sent every second. Around 80% of these millions of message are but spam and viruses.

In the United States, only 4% of Internet users said marketing emails made them decide not to buy a product. - e-Dialog, "Global Perspectives: a Study of Consumer Attitudes to Digital Marketing" (2010)

Forty-three percent of email users check their email first thing in the morning, and 40% have checked their email in the middle of the night. Twenty-six percent admit to checking email on a laptop in bed while in their pajamas. - AOL (2007)

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