{"id":63336,"date":"2012-10-29T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T07:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=63336"},"modified":"2012-10-30T08:53:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T06:53:42","slug":"twitter-half-a-billion-daily-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/63336-twitter-half-a-billion-daily-tweets.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter: half a billion daily tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359584-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> is now racking up half a billion tweets every day.<\/p>\n<p>At the Engage conference in London, Twitter CEO <a title=\"Dick Costolo\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/478458-Dick-Costolo\">Dick Costolo<\/a> confirmed the number, which is up from the 400 million daily tweets reported in June.<\/p>\n<p>Costolo also confirmed that Twitter is testing \u201clike\u201d and star buttons on the microblogging website. The two additions had been previously <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/62936-twitter-reportedly-testing-like-and-star-options.html\" target=\"_blank\">rumoured<\/a>, but this is the first time Twitter has made any official comment.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\" http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57541566-93\/report-twitter-hits-half-a-billion-tweets-a-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jub Jub tweet causes outcry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/62430-jub-jub-tweet-causes-outcry.html\"><strong>Jub Jub tweet causes outcry<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Twitter study gives insight into user habits\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/61860-twitter-study-gives-insight-into-user-habits.html\">Twitter study gives insight into user habits<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Get paid to tweet\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/58629-get-paid-to-tweet.html\">Get paid to tweet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Motlanthe impersonated on Facebook, Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/58355-motlanthe-impersonated-on-facebook-twitter.html\">Motlanthe impersonated on Facebook, Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter issees a strong growth in daily tweets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":52047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7405,7979,16452,405],"class_list":["post-63336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-dick-costolo","tag-quicknews","tag-tweets-per-day","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63336"}],"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\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63342,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63336\/revisions\/63342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}