Twitter Records 50 Million Tweets Per Day

Posted 02/23/2010 at 3:41pm | by Paul Lilly

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We knew Twitter was huge, but what's most staggering is the microblogging service's astronomical growth rate. According to the company's own data, there are some 50 million tweets being posted every day, which works out to around 600 tweets per second.

"Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007," Twitter wrote in a blog post. "By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew by 1,400 percent last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day."

Even more remarkable, those figures don't include tweets from accounts identified as spam.

"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," Twitter added.

No matter how you slice it, that's a lot of tweets, though hardly surprising if you follow our very own Nathan Edwards, who has no doubt contributed to this massive growth in daily tweets.

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