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Twitter Now Handling 600 Tweets Per Second

 

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 daily tweets from twitter

36 months ago, Twitter was handling 5,000 tweets per day. In 2008 the number was 300,000. Last year it was an astonishing 2.5 million tweets each day of the week. 

So, where do we stand in February, 2010?  Just shy of 50 (fifty!) million tweets per day, or an average of 600 TPS (tweets per second). 

The new data was published by Twitter analytics lead Kevin Weil in a blog post this evening.

According to Weil, "Tweet deliveries are a much higher number because once created, tweets must be delivered to multiple followers."  And, he wants you to know that the TPS numbers here do not include tweets from those accounts identified as spam.

While Twitter's tweet-count data show strong growth, third-party data on other Twitter metrics show slowing growth. HubSpot's recent State of the Twittersphere report showed user sign-up growth slowing, while Compete.com and Quantcast both show growth of traffic on Twitter.com slowing.

 

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Posted by Jeanne Hopkins on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 @ 07:06 PM

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87% of new Twitter users Tweet 3 times on average and never return to their accounts. Instead of focusing on how many new Twitter accounts are opened every day and how many tweets are made every day why not reveal how many Twitter accounts are dormant! The truth is that the number of "actively used" Twitter accounts is decreasing. Unless, of course, you include those who want to know when their idols last used the bathroom and other important information.

posted on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 11:32 PM by Peter

87% of new Twitter users Tweet 3 times on average and never return to their accounts. Instead of focusing on how many new Twitter accounts are opened every day and how many tweets are made every day why not reveal how many Twitter accounts are dormant! The truth is that the number of "actively used" Twitter accounts is decreasing. Unless, of course, you include those who want to know when their idols last used the bathroom and other important information.

posted on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 11:32 PM by Peter

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