5,000,000,000

Flickr is now hosting more than 5 billion photos/  According to the Yahoo-owned photo site, user “yeoaaron” uploaded the site’s 5 billionth photo on September 18th, 2010.. The image shows the Woodwards Collage in Vancouver, B.C.  Flickr says more than 3,000 images are uploaded to the site every minute. It reached 2 billion photos in 2007. It hit the 3 billion mark a year later in 2008.