Twitter just celebrated its fifth year as a technology this week. It began as a small project among a few coworkers at a podcasting company in San Francisco called Odeo.
Thanks to Twitter, the world is closer and more “real-time” than ever.
Here are some notable statistics regarding Twitter’s five year
existence.
Twitter statistics to tweet:
- 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet. »tweet«
- 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets. »tweet«
- 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago. »tweet«
- 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month. »tweet«
- 177 million. Tweets sent on March 11, 2011. »tweet«
- 456. Tweets per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time). »tweet«
- 6,939. Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day. »tweet«
- 572,000. Number of new Twitter accounts created on March 12, 2011. »tweet«
- 460,000. Average number of new Twitter accounts per day over the last month. »tweet«
- 182%. Increase in number of mobile Twitter users over the past year. »tweet«
- 8. 29. 130. 350. 400. Number of @Twitter employees in Jan 2008, Jan 2009, Jan 2010, Jan 2011 and Mar 2012. »tweet«
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