Yesterday Wikipedia engaged in a different kind of a protest regarding the SOPA and PIPA Acts. They shut down their site for 24 hours straight and this had made a huge impact on the world. Some, who didn’t know about SOPA has started to read what SOPA is since yesterday it seems.
Well let’s see how it’ll affect to our other friends, fb, google, twitter, eBay etc., if they shut down for 24 hours. The figures are from reports.
Google: Google normally makes $3 billion a month from advertising only. Their main income is the text link ads you see in almost every site. So if they shut down they might be losing about $100 million per day.
Facebook: If they closed shop for one day they would lose almost $11.7 million and would loose tons of FB users.
Twitter: Twitter being the market place of all times, if they shut down, users will hardly have a place to spread their word. Twitter would lose around $400,000.
eBay: In 2010, eBay’s revenue was $9 billion. Calculating the predictions, eBay would lose $28 million in one day not taking the individual seller loses.
Amazon Amazon would have been looking at around $82 million lost in one day.
Yahoo: Even Yahoo will be losing 11.8 million a day but they have their own problems to worry about these days.
Via:nextweb
