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

March 14, 2011 by Michael Berkens

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.

Filed Under: Media

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.

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Comments

  1. TheBigLieSociety says

    March 14, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    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.

  2. WinningSex.com says

    March 14, 2011 at 6:30 pm

    Never used it, probably never will.

  3. MHB says

    March 14, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    Winning

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

  4. Domainers Gate - The amazing idea that also the world famous Domaining.com has just cloned !!! says

    March 14, 2011 at 6:55 pm

    frankly, the Twitter success always seemed and still seems incredible to me

  5. WinningSex.com says

    March 14, 2011 at 6:56 pm

    @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?

  6. MHB says

    March 14, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    Winning

    Yes

    Wait for my next post in a few

  7. Angela (the dnsMOM) says

    March 14, 2011 at 7:34 pm

    I think it is a prudent move for any business to protect their brand with Twitter. I can’t wait for the next post MHB! Keep up the great work :0)

  8. Josh says

    March 14, 2011 at 9:01 pm

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

  9. RH says

    March 15, 2011 at 4:08 am

    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.


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