Facebook's 1.1 B Photos on News Year Day/Eve

Content upload stats have set a new high at Facebook.

• A record 1.1 billion photos were uploaded during the 48 hours over News Year’s Day and Eve on Facebook
• The number of Facebook photo uploads tops the record-setting 844 million photos shared over last year’s New Year’s. 
• Nearly 300 million photos are uploaded to Facebook on an average day. 
• Facebook has a collection of 240+ billion photos which are now indexed in Facebook’s new internal search engine - Facebook Graph Search