Flickr tallies 5 billion photos
The Yahoo-owned photo site on Saturday hit its 5 billion photos milestone, company announces.
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Flickr is now hosting more than 5 billion photos, the company announced on its blog yesterday.
According to the Yahoo-owned photo site, user "yeoaaron" uploaded the site's 5 billionth photo on Saturday. The image shows the Woodwards Collage in Vancouver, B.C.
Flickr says more than 3,000 images are uploaded to the site every minute. It reached 2 billion photos in 2007. It hit the 3 billion mark a year later in 2008.
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