Spanish has earned a place among the top three most widely used languages on the Internet. Trailing behind English and Chinese, it’s estimated that 136 million users – or roughly one third of all Spanish speakers – communicate and consume content on the web en español. Spanish speakers account for eight percent of the world’s total population of Internet users. The presence of Spanish speakers on the Internet has grown considerably over the past three years, and there are now some 681 million pages in Spanish according to Google.
About 8.4 million Spaniards get their news online through the computer, with an additional 2.9 million users accessing news links through their mobile phones. Twenty percent of these users spend three hours per month catching up on the news, a reality that has helped online newspapers overtake traditional print media. The profile of an average consumer of digital media in Spanish is a male under the age of 45.
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