Did you know...? Twitter Stats and Facts

Did you know…

Twitter has just achieved a major milestone: July 2011 - Its users now send 200 million tweets per day.

Twitter decided to do the math and see how many books could be written with 200 million tweets. According to its calculations, a day’s worth of tweets would be enough to write a 10-million-page book or 8,163 copies of War and Peace. Every second, 2,400 tweets are sent through Twitter’s servers, enough for 1.4 billion tweets per week.

Twitter surpassed 50 million tweets per day less than a year-and-a-half ago, and two years ago, Twitter users sent just 10 million tweets per day.

Did you know…

Twitter adds 5 new users – every second?

Twitter’s latest growth figures show that every day they are adding around 460, 000 users. That’s about 5 new users every second, or 320 every minute. WOW! And that’s not all… more juicy stats here.

Did you know…

Twitter has over 300 million users – and YOU can watch that grow!

At this moment, Twitter has well over 300,000,000 users. Tweetreports offers a phenominal graphic called The Twitter Clock, where you can watch Twitter’s user numbers grow, insanely fast, in real time – just click on the graphic and see for yourself!

Okay…

We realize Twitter may not be taken very seriously by the general public. It’s been said - ‘Twitter is for twits’ - many times.

However…

No matter how it’s perceived, the facts speak volumes for how far it’s come – and how far it may be going - following its humble origins and launch in 2006.

Since then, Twitter has gained immense popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 225 million users (March 2011), generating over 150 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries a day. Twitter is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet" and its 140 character limit keeps the messages short and simple.

Its attraction as a social media web platform is in its rapid, real time messaging that enables breaking news and information to hit the web instantly without filters and censorship.

***Twitter Facts and Figures***

Creation/Launch: 2006

1. > Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched in July 2006.
2. > Twitter was birthed during a “day long brainstorming session” held by the board members of the podcasting company Odeo. While sitting in a park on a children’s slide and eating Mexican food, Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group - full story here.
3. > The first Twitter prototype was used as an internal service for Odeo employees and the full version was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006.
4. > The original project code name for the service was ‘twttr‘, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by the name of the social media image website ‘Flickr’ and the five-character length of American SMS short codes.
5. > The team finally settled on the name ‘twitter‘, which means ‘chirps from birds’; in essence, ‘a short burst of inconsequential information’.

2007:

1. > 400,000 tweets posted per quarter in 2007

2008:

1. > 3 million registered users
2. > 1.25 million tweets average per day
3. > 8 employees - January 2008

2009:

1. > 8 million registered users

2010:

1. > 100 million new accounts added
2. > 350 million tweets average a week - March 2010
3. > 25 billion tweets sent

This year – 2011:

1. > Over 400 employees
2. > 460,000 new accounts average created per day - February, 2011
3. > 140 million tweets average per day - February 2011
4. > 572,000 new accounts created in one day - March 12, 2011
5. > 225 million estimated users - March 2011
6. > 177 million tweets sent - March 11, 2011
7. > A billion tweets a week - March 2011
8. > 182% increase in number of mobile users over the past year!

A Forrester report revealed that “Twitterers are the connected of the connected, overindexing at all Social Media habits. For example, Twitterers are three times more likely to be Creators (people who create and share content via blog posts and YouTube) as the general US population.”

These people are TALKING – they could be talking ABOUT YOUR business!!

These people are MINGLING – they could be mingling WITH YOUR business!!

These people are BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS – they could be building relationships WITH YOUR business!!

Your competitive edge starts NOW. We’re here to help you to get your customers talking…

- © 2011 NOW Marketing Group, Inc.

Article Sources:

• Twitter Surpasses 200 Million Tweets Per Day
• Twitter Reveals Its Latest Numbers
• Ten Stunning Twitter Facts and Stories
• Terrific Twitter Facts and Figures
• The Twitter Clock: Real-time Twitter Statistics