Twitter Search Queries Soar to 800 Million Per Day
Twitter Search Queries Soar to 800 Million Per Day
Posted 07/07/2010 at 2:42pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Maybe one of the reasons Twitter has been so unreliable lately is that their servers are getting hammered with search requests. This seems to be a valid conclusion based on the news that Twitter's volume of search queries has ballooned 33% in the last few months to about 800 million per day. That works out to 24 million searches per month.
It's hard to gage this number in comparison to traditional search engines, as we don't have any recent numbers. But Bing was only seeing 4.1 billion requests per month in December 2009. One way or the other, Twitter is becoming a huge force in real time search. The issue of real time search has stymied the likes of Google and Bing. It's difficult to find up to the minute information on a search engine, so users are turning more and more to Twitter.
Twitter can expect this number to continue growing, and as such, boost their revenues thanks to sponsored tweets in search results. Now they just need to get the hardware to keep the site running, and they'll be in business. Have you used Twitter to search for something? If so, what for?
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Replyz Team
July 30, 2010 at 3:04pm
Even if these soaring numbers are inflated by API calls from Twitter apps and so forth, it's clear they are going to be a formidable force in the search space. The growing volume of Tweets is making Twitter results more accurate all the time, and this may reach a critical threshold. As a largely Twitter-based search service ourselves (we display a searchable stream of the questions people are asking on Twitter, see http://replyz.com/c) we're finding that as Tweet volume grows, our index improves and searches are getting much more accurate.
nduanetesh
July 07, 2010 at 3:54pm
"800 million per day. That works out to 24 million searches per month."
I'm half drunk and I know that math doesn't work.
Mickey68
July 07, 2010 at 8:35pm
I thought the same thing
"That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an
“information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24
billion queries a month."
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