Twitter Tops 20 Billion Tweets
PrintIt's official, folks - Twitter is popular. Very popular. As in, the microblogging service recorded its 20 billionth tweet over the weekend when "GGGGGGo_Lets_Go," a graphic designer in Tokyo who works at an advertising agency, posted the milestone message.
"It looks like I posted the 20 billionth tweet. I'm getting replies from people all over the world. It's scary. What are the chances? Maybe Im' going to die. Is it more amazing than winning the lottery? I thought it was a joke," he said in a followup Twitter message.
If you need any proof that Twitter is growing at an incredible rate, consider that the 10 billionth tweet was posted not even five months ago, which itself was four years in the making.
At last count, Twitter was growing by an average of 300,000 new users every day.
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pastorbob
August 02, 2010 at 8:25am
So what? 99% of those tweets were meaningless drivel about which I couldn't care less.
nedwards
August 02, 2010 at 1:28pm
99% of tweets might be garbage, but that means 1% of tweets aren't, and 1% of 20 billion is 200 million.
hades_2100
August 03, 2010 at 11:51am
I think he left a couple of 9s off after the decimal place there.
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