Facebook by the Numbers in 2010 [STATS]

Facebook users uploaded more than 2.7 million photographs, shared 1 million links and “liked” 7.6 million pages every 20 minutes in 2010, according to the company.

Among other data the social network is releasing: Lady Gaga was the most-liked celebrity on Facebook() with 24.7 million likes, beating out Eminem with 23.7 million and Barack Obama, who had 17.2 million.

The numbers also offer a snapshot into Facebook users’ love lives in 2010. Some 43,869,800 people changed their relationship status to single during the year while 3,025,791 changed it to “it’s complicated.” Another 28,460,516 changed their status to in a relationship, 5,974,574 to engaged and 36,774,801 to married.

Meanwhile, here’s a look at Facebook activity from a randomly chosen 20 minutes:

Shared links: 1,000,000

Tagged() photos: 1,323,000

Event invites sent out: 1,484,000

Wall posts: 1,587,000

Status updates: 1,851,000

Friend() requests accepted: 1,972,000

Photos uploaded: 2,716,000

Comments: 10,208,000

Messages: 4,632,000

Likes: 7,657,000

via Facebook by the Numbers in 2010 [STATS].