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Twitter hits 50 million tweets per day
In a post on his blog yesterday Twitter's analytics guru Kevin Weil confirmed that there are now over 50 million tweets a day.
"Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day-that's an average of 600 tweets per second. "
Weil also adds that the number of daily tweets is actually only one part of the micro blogging application's reach.
"Tweet deliveries are a much higher number because once created, tweets must be delivered to multiple followers," explains Weil. "Then there's search and so many other ways to measure and understand growth across this information network."
Twitter's huge growth in 2009 can be explained by a number of factors. Celebrity users of the service (such as Oprah Winfrey and Ashton Kutcher) have attracted millions of new tweeters. Media companies, which attract large followers and tweet regularly throughout the day, have also fuelled the growth. Also over the last twelve months a large number of brands have also developed Twitter profiles to engage with their customers, deliver their latest news and advise on customer service issues.
Working out how many people are using Twitter is a tricky as many of its users tweet via third party applications like Tweetdeck and Tweetie (on the iPhone) rather than via the Twitter website. Hitwise through recently estimated that traffic to Twitter in the UK has trebled since the start of 2009.
