Twitter Processes 50 Million Tweets Per Day
According to the official Twitter Blog, there has been a MASSIVE spike in tweeting over the last 12 months. Clearly stating the obvious here as we’ve seen how pervasive micro-blogging has become in all aspects of our daily lives. The interesting thing that I took away from their post was the microscopic level they take their analysis – down to the second (they are processing an average of more than 600 tweets per second). Tech Crunch takes this a step further, and puts the question to their readers regarding who is responsible for the bulk of the tweeting. Is it the top 10% of users that are responsible for this number? Good question – I know looking at my twitter stream of people that I follow, I can pinpoint 5-10 people I follow that compose the bulk of the information that comes across to me. Here are some additional interesting observations from the Royal Pingdom:
- December 2009 was the first month Twitter processed more than one billion tweets (with 1.036 billion tweets).
- January 2010 had 16 times as many tweets as January 2009.
- The activity on Twitter has doubled since August 2009.
- January 2010 saw more tweets per day (39.5 million) than the whole of September 2008.