{"id":11568,"date":"2010-02-23T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-23T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:54:00","slug":"twitter-s-traffic-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/11568-twitter-s-traffic-soars.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter\u2019s traffic soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>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 &ndash; up from 5000 in 2007.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>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.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;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&mdash;that&#8217;s an average of 600 tweets per second,&rdquo; commented Weil via the official Twitter blog.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;Tweet deliveries are a much higher number because once created, tweets must be delivered to multiple followers. Then there&#8217;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,&rdquo; Weil continued.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to Sean Garrett, vice president of communications at Twitter, 20% of tweets contain a reference to a product or a brand &ndash; this equates to roughly 83 tweets per second.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?218101-Twitter-traffic-soars&amp;p=3644687#post3644687\"><strong>Twitter&rsquo;s traffic soars<\/strong><\/a> &lt; Discussion<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter users now generate 50 million Tweets a day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}