TechnesstivityTwitter now gets 200 Million tweets daily
It’s exactly half of the year. Twitter users are now sending 200 million tweets per day according to a blogpost by twitter. Looking at the number of tweets posted in January 2009, we had 2million tweets a day and by June in 2010, Tweeps were posting 65million tweets a day. In physical perspective, every day twitter users write an equivalent of a 10million page book via their tweets or 8,1630 of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Now, to read this text will take more than 31 years so don’t even attempt it! Stacking all these War and Peace copies together, and the books will reach 1,470 feet about the size of Taiwan’s Taipei 101 – the world’s second tallest building.
We’ve continued to see Twitter grow from it’s early text post only stage to it’s photosharing stage and it’s being used as a news distribution tool by a lot of people now. People are beginning to check the Trending Topics to find out what’s going on around the world(planking is not news). The question remains does twitter pose a threat to facebook? Sure they’re not the same service but there’s been an increase in Microblogging recently to the point that tumblr has more users than wordpress.
Twitter has also released the top Trending Topics for the first half of the year, divided into the 2 most popular categories.
World events/News
1. AH1N1 – Swine Flu
2. Mubarak – former Egyptian President
3. Easter – Christian holiday
4. Cairo – capital of Egypt
5. #prayforjapan – sentiment following the March earthquake and tsunami
6. Chernobyl – site of nuclear disaster in 1986
7. Libia/Libya – site of an ongoing civil war
8. Fukushima – Japanese nuclear power plant
9. William & Kate – Newly-named Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge
10. Gadafi – Libyan political leader
Pop culture
1. Rebecca Black – pop singer
2. Femme Fatale – newly-released Britney Spears album
3. Charlie Sheen – actor
4. #tigerblood – hashtag popularized by Charlie Sheen
5. Nate Dogg – rapper
6. Anderson Silva – Brazilian mixed martial artist
7. Tom & Jerry – famous cartoon
8. Mumford & Sons – British rock band
9. Bieber alert – referring to artist Justin Bieber
10. Queen Gaga – referring to artist Lady Gaga
Do you think twitter is going to continue to grow? Will it’s growth get plateaued at a point or will it overtake facebook? Leave us a comment.
