Twitter By The Numbers An Inside Look: 1 Billion Tweets a Week

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Twitter in celebration of its 3rd anniversary just released some extremely interesting internal numbers on its blog today.

  • 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet.
  • 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets.
  • 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago.
  • 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month.
  • 177 million. Tweets sent on March 11, 2011.
  • 456. Tweets per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time).
  • 6,939. Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day.


#accounts

  • 572,000. Number of new accounts created on March 12, 2011.
  • 460,000. Average number of new accounts per day over the last month.
  • 182%. Increase in number of mobile users over the past year.


#employees

  • 8. 29. 130. 350. 400. Number of Twitter employees in Jan 2008, Jan 2009, Jan 2010, Jan 2011 and today.

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. TheBigLieSociety says

    One other item to note is that Twitter Name Space is “FREE” (as in MONEY)

    If ICANN were to remove MONEY from the “Domain Industry” the Internet may be a better place.

    A Cost-FREE or U.S. Government sponsored Domain Name System would likely serve many people, who trust their government.

    There may be a way to tie FREE Twitter Names & associated stored information back into the “Domain Name Space”. In other words, your Twitter Name would also be a Domain Name.

  3. MHB says

    Winning

    I think not using Twitter based on these numbers is probably not the best business decision.

  5. WinningSex.com says

    @MHB,

    Other that ancillary usage by already established companies, do you know of any businesses that have been able to successfully monetize their “tweeting” to a measurable degree?

  8. Josh says

    So .10 a visit, not bad but still not as good as a domain…a domain that keeps giving and giving.

  9. RH says

    Mike its funny about a week ago I started a thread to gauge how important Twitter is to domainers ? The response has been mostly negative and that no one really considered Twitter important for domaining.