50 million tweets sent on Twitter daily
By Wilson • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Industry News
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Twitter, the microblogging site that has experienced amazing growth over the last two years, has just announced that over 50 million tweets are sent from the service daily. This statistic is in stark contrast with recent reports that the service’s growth may be slowing and it also confirms Twitter’s place as an important information sharing service.
Phenomenal stats
This statistic is representative of the growth j-curve many economics classes teach. With only 5000 tweets daily in 2007,
300 000 in 2008, and 2.5 million daily status updates beginning of 2009, the term ‘exponential growth’ is very apt here. In a year, the service has grown by over 2,000%.
Though Twitter does not report unique visitors, comScore estimates peg the service at 75 million unique users. This static only includes visitors to the site twitter.com but does not represent the millions of users who access Twitter through its API with applications like Tweetie, Tweetdeck and so forth on both desktops and Smartphones.
Information overload and noise
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The natural question is, how many of those tweets are spam? According to the company, they only counted status updates that had been filtered for spam, thus giving as close to accurate a tweet count as possible. Still, the sheer volume of tweets in and of themselves can only be considered amazing.
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Search deals with Microsoft, Google and the recently announced deal with Yahoo means even more traffic will be generated to Twitter through various Internet searches, and it is within reason that either Twitter or another developer aims to create some kind of knowledge repository where it will organise and bring tweets on particular events and occurrences into one place, meaning more traffic generation for the site. Twitter’s next status updates target is likely to be Facebook’s record, which has 10 million more updates daily, though the service is much bigger, with over 400 million registered users.
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