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Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets a Day, Still Lags Behind Facebook

by Amar Toor on February 23, 2010 at 11:00 AM

We sort of had an idea that Twitter was blowing up in a big way. As it turns out, though, we really had no idea. According to the Twitter analytics team, tweeting activity has grown exponentially over the past three years, to the point where people are now posting about 50 million tweets per day, or roughly 600 tweets per second. As you can see in the above summary graph, the majority of the social networking site's growth has precipitated over the course of the past year. In 2008, people were posting a respectable 300,000 tweets per day, but, by 2009, that number shot up to 35 million. That's a 1400-percent increase that was boosted, no doubt, by the public spotlight in which Twitter found itself following the summer protests in Iran.

As the site's number crunchers explain, the tweet delivery stats would be even higher, since, once a single tweet is created, it's then sent to multiple followers. In other words, the 600 tweets per second stat doesn't even begin to tell the whole story when it comes to the volume of information being sent across the network. For some comparison, Facebook says its 400 million users are posting over 60 million status updates daily. Twitter, estimated to have just 75 million users, is definitely competing in the status update game; now, if only it could monetize all those tweets. [From: Twitter Blog]

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