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Sunday, 1st August 2010

Social Media: Twitter Passes the 20 Billion Tweet Mark

REPOST, ERROR Corrected

That's right, 20 billion tweets and counting.

If you want to track the the number of tweets going through the system in real time, visit GigaTweet.

They're predicting that Twitter will hit 30 billion tweets in 126 days.

From BBC News:

The landmark and rather opaque tweet was sent at 1544 GMT Saturday by GGGGGGo_Lets_Go, a Tokyo graphic designer for an advertising agency.

[See it Here]

It said: "So that means the barrage might come back later all at once."

Twitter took four years to reach its 10 billionth tweet, in March this year, and less than five months to double it.

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The Japanese send nearly 8m tweets a day, about 12% of the global total and second only to the US, according to the San Francisco-based micro-blogging service.

Hat Tip: @mwbiz

See Also: What Percentage of Users Would Pay for Twitter? + Other Findings from the 2010 Digital Future Report (U.S. Stats)
Highlights from 2010 USC Annenberg Digital Future Study

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