Flickr Vital Statistics

While Flickr will be down during sometime for maintenance, they have posted some statistics that seem out of this world in their blog and here they are:

• Flickr serve 12,000 photos a second at peak times -- that's 2,654,208,000 bits each and every second (8:20 PM)
• Flickr set an all-time upload record yesterday: 2,070,075 photos in 24 hours! (8:40 PM)
• The Flickrverse has over 8.5 million registered members (9:00 PM)
• Over 10 million unique tags have been added to photos on Flickr (9:20 PM)