Twitter’s 20 billionth tweet is user’s moment of glory

Some may aver that the person who tweeted this message was one from the hoi-polloi and therefore the user will not go down in the history books.

"GGGGGGo_Lets_Go," reads the 20 billionth tweet from a graphic designer in Tokyo.

Prima facie, there is nothing great about the message unless it is decoded and it transpires to be some famous words or something that enlightens the present day world.

At the end of the day it may just transpire that the tweet was part of a longer conversation between two users, hence was difficult to decipher.

The tweet came at 12:44 a.m. Sunday (1544 GMT, 11:44 a.m. EDT Saturday).

Part of the larger feat
The tweet is a feat of sorts, not because of the timing, but because it highlights the skyrocketing popularity of Twitter.

Termed as the 'SMS of the internet,' Twitter took merely two months to leapfrog from its 15-billionth tweet to where it is now; 20 billion tweets.

This tweet definitely represents the phenomenal pace with which the micro-blogging site is growing.

So while it is merry making time at the San Francisco, California based company, congratulations have poured in for the, as yet unnamed, graphic designer for being associated with Twitter’s fantabulous feat.

"I'm grateful and humbled by those who are visiting because of my 20 billionth tweet. Be warned, I tweet a lot about baseball," reads the designer’s bio now.

Phenomenal growth
Termed as the 'SMS of the internet,' Twitter took merely two months to leapfrog from its 15-billionth tweet to where it is now; 20 billion tweets.

Prior to that, the journey from 10 billion tweets to 15 billion tweets took 5 months. Compared to these numbers, Twitter’s start appears slows as it took 4 years to reach the ten-billion-tweet mark.

The upswing of activity, in recent times has been, partly due to record Twitter posting registered during this year's World Cup tournament. Twitter hit a mind-boggling 3,283 tweets per second at the end of the Japan-Denmark game.

Nonetheless the service still adds approximately 300,000 new users on a daily basis. That is astounding by any standards. Its February level, prior to the World Cup activity, suggests nearly 50 million Tweets per day, or 600 tweets per second.