In honor of Twitter’s fifth anniversary the folks at Visually have made the following graphic plotting out key milestones on it’s path to 200 million tweets a day.

According to Techcrunch…

The company hopes by the end of 2013 to have 1 billion users (more than Facebook) in addition to $1.5 billion in revenue and an over 5,000 person staff. Just typing out that sort of ambition is sort of painful when the service still shows me that I’m following people who I’m not and is all over the place with regards to a steady revenue stream.

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Pornography has been traded online since the 1980′s, even in the form of ASCII art, and then, with the rise of the world wide web in the 1990s, adult websites began springing up everywhere. Here are the figures for the enormous world of internet pornography.

Via: Online MBA

Rickrolling originally began as an internet prank where one person would be provided a link to something allegedly awesome. When they clicked the link, they would be taken to Rick Astley’s video “Never Gonna Give You Up”… something decidedly not awesome… well maybe slightly awesome. Here’s an infographic detailing the act.

Oh yes and then the video itself…

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Google is massive, let’s face it. Soon they’ll be running the number 10 bus through your village and sponsoring the local school sports day but the question is ‘How big is Google?’. Pingdom have answered this by creating this massive infographic on Google’s facts and figures.

Infographic copyright Pingdom.

This year General Motors (GM) began the fourth largest bankruptcy proceedings in history, joining the many other large and venerable companies that have sunk to the bottom during this economic crisis. In fact, eight of the 20 largest bankruptcies have happened during the last two years of crisis. This infographic from Good illustrates visually the magnitude of these collapses.