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Five Billionth Tweet Sent, World Rolls Eyes

by Terrence O'Brien on October 20, 2009 at 12:21 PM

Five Billionth Tweet Sent, World Rolls Eyes at HeadlinesA mere 11 months after Twitter saw the one billionth Tweet, the five billionth tweet has surfaced. An application called Gigatweet, which tracks the total number of tweets sent, singled out as Number Five Billion this epic message from Robin Sloan (thankfully, a non-celebrity): "oh lord." For those keeping score at home, there's an easy way to tell a tweet's overall number: the URL. Apparently, those numbers that sit at the ends of individual updates' addresses serve as a running tally.

Now, we know that people are sending more and more messages through the service everyday (We didn't need a running count to figure that out.), but what we haven't figured out is how Twitter plans to make money and continue operating. Hopefully, the next time we cover Twitter it will be to announce some brilliant plan for monetizing the service, not to announce that someone just sent the ten billionth tweet. Because, honestly, who cares? [From: CNET]

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