Twitter hitting 50 million tweets per day
by Stevie Smith - Feb 23 2010, 13:01
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Not that we’ve ever doubted the thundering popularity of Twitter – it is, after all, everywhere we turn these days – but recent daily usage figures for the micro-blogging juggernaut have revealed just how popular 140-character messaging has become.
More pointedly, Twitter analytics specialist Kevin Weil has offered up an official blog post showing the service’s formidable progress over the last three years and particularly over the last 12 months.
According to the post’s accompanying graph, which shows massive growth since January of 2009, the daily amount of tweet messages dispatched by users in January of 2010 crept towards 50 million.
“Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day,” outlined Weil, who was also keen to point out the growth chart was carrying figures amassed after the removal of spam tweets.
Twitter’s blog post of self-congratulation also revealed that overall tweet momentum grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day, while the online service is currently boasting 50 million tweets per day – which is an average of 600 tweets per second.
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