Money Matters, Simplified.
Twitter reports 50mn tweets per day
by Ishita Sood - February 23, 2010 - comments
Created by Jack Dorsey in 2006, Twitter has gained immense fame worldwide. Notable celebrities like Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Jonathan Ross, Lance Armstrong, Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, among others, blog on the site.
Social networking site Twitter has sent out 50 million 140-character-or-less tweets per day, according to latest figures released by the site on Monday.
The number of tweets, which comes to six hundred per second, is roughly 6 times more than the number in 2008. In 2007, the site had only five thousand tweets per day.
Kevin Weil, a member with Twitter analytics team said, “Tweets grew 1,400 percent 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.”
“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. We'll make time to share more information so please stay tuned,” he added.
Twitter’s growing popularity
In January 2010, Twitter had 40 million tweets and 73.5 million unique visitors everyday.
The company said on Monday that the 50 million figure includes the tweets made by users, so the actual number of tweets delivered by the service is much higher. It had even omitted messages that were classified as spam.
ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick said that Sean Garrett, Twitter's VP of Communications, classified 20 percent tweets as either product or brand references.
Weil said whatever the posts may be, they only highlight the growing importance of the portal.
Nielsen.com ranked Twitter as the fastest-growing site for February 2009. Twitter had a monthly growth of 1,382 percent, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228 percent.
More about Twitter
Created by Jack Dorsey in 2006, Twitter has gained immense popularity worldwide.
CEO Evan Williams said, “What we have to do is deliver to people the best and freshest most relevant information possible. We think of Twitter as it's not a social network, but it's an information network. It tells people what they care about as it is happening in the world.”
Notable celebrities like Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Jonathan Ross, Lance Armstrong, Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, among others, blog on the site.