Twitter Hits 50M Tweets a Day as Cybercriminals Watch

February 24th, 2010

Fifty million. That’s how many tweets Twitter users send every day. It’s the latest stat in a micro-blogging growth story that has taken the social-media world by storm. But as corporations and celebrities join the fray, cybercriminals are lying in wait with spam scams.

Kevin Weil of Twitter’s analytics team posted a graph on the company’s blog that tells the story of how the service has grown over the past three years in number of tweets created per day — not counting tweets from accounts identified as spam.

The results: Users tweeted 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 percent last year to 35 million per day. Today, Weil reported, Twitter sees 50 million tweets per day — an average of 600 tweets per second.

“Tweet deliveries are a much higher number because once created, tweets must be delivered to multiple followers. Then there’s search and so many other ways to measure and understand growth across this information network ,” Weil said. “Tweets per day is just one number to think about.”

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