Time's "poll" was conducted by PlayBuzz, a viral-content provider that embeds quizzes, polls, lists, and other "playful content" items onto Web sites to attract traffic.
During an average minute in 2012, Google received 2m search requests, Facebook users shared around 700,000 content items and Twitter sent out 200,000 tweets, notes the report.
With around 2.45 billion content items and 2.7 billion 'Likes' being shared every day Facebook has become an increasingly important tool for advertisers and content creators.
Steve Auckland, the chief executive of Local World, has set a series of ambitious targets for its digital transformation including a 20-fold increase in output to 100,000 content items per day across its regional newspaper websites.
"We create what we call a relevance map between content items like TV programmes in our database," says RedBee Media chief technology officer Steve Plunkett, whose RedDiscover software engine is used by online video operators to recommend videos to viewers.
1) Display a chronologically arranged list of content items.
In this period, we have 17,196 content items and 124,287 web accesses recorded.
Just on Facebook, 2.4 billion content items are shared among friends every day [1].
This is intended to aid users in identifying from where newly arrived content items were sent.
In one arrangement, a scrollable list of content items may be displayed.
