flickr staff posted this stuff on the flickr blog while the main site was down tonight.

Miscellaneous stats to keep you entertained while we wait:

* Our networking gear moves 12,000 photos a second — at peak, that’s 2,654,208,000 bits each second (8:20 PM)
* We set an all-time upload record yesterday: 2,070,075 photos in 24 hours! (8:40 PM)
* The Flickrverse has 8.5 million registered members (9:00 PM)
* Our outgoing bandwidth is roughly 3.5 gigabits per second (9:20 PM)