YouTube claims that 1 billion people are now visiting its online video site each month to watch clips of everything from cute cats to newsrooms doing the Harlem shake. 

That is more viewers than the TV networks evening newscasts ​get combined in a month. 

YouTube crossed the 1 billion threshold five months after Facebook Inc. said its online social network had reached that figure for the first time. YouTube first hit 800 million monthly visitors in October 2011.

​I don't know about you, but I think this whole Internet thing is starting to catch on.

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