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Friday, 5th March 2010

Milestones: Twitter Crosses 50 Billion Tweet Mark

From the Wall Street Journal:

...The Journal’s Numbers Guy, Carl Bialik, reminded us recently that these “milestone” numbers don’t mean much. Some might want to believe that the content of the 10 billionth iTunes download last week indicates the enduring power of the classics like Johnny Cash. But that doesn’t change the fact that the top iTunes song of all time is by the Black Eyed Peas.

The speed with which the tweet milestone was reached, however, does indicate that Twitter is still growing. The microblogging service said recently that it sees 50 million tweets per day, up from 2.5 million about a year ago.

From The Guardian:

Sadly, you can't see the 10 billionth because it was from a user who protects his or her tweets.

Twitter's numbers are, of course, still relatively small compared to the sort of traffic hitting really popular sites such as YouTube and Facebook. Windows Live Messenger runs around 10bn "tweets" per day.

See Also: Want to Keep-Up With the Number of Tweets, Up to the Second? Check out GigaTweet.

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