Internet23.02.2010
Twitter’s traffic soars
Twitter analytics executive Kevin Weil has released statistical details behind the growing micro blogging platform which reveal that its users now generate 50 million tweets a day – up from 5000 in 2007.
According to Weil the site has experienced unprecedented growth since its inception in 2006. The past year in particular has seen the strongest jump in usage with a 1400% growth in tweets to 35 million per day.
The platform, which has played host to controversy, celebrities imposters and has arguably redefined the way in which news is broken, has now reached a total of 50 million tweets each day.
“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. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day—that’s an average of 600 tweets per second,” commented Weil via the official Twitter blog.
“Tweet deliveries are a much higher number because once created, tweets must be delivered to multiple followers. Then there’s search and so many other ways to measure and understand growth across this information network. Tweets per day is just one number to think about,” Weil continued.
According to Sean Garrett, vice president of communications at Twitter, 20% of tweets contain a reference to a product or a brand – this equates to roughly 83 tweets per second.
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