It hardly bears thinking about – there are now 50 million tweets a day, according to Twitter. That’s 600 per second.
“Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million,” says the company’s Kevin Weil.
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Apparently the number grew 1,400 percent last year to 35 million a day, and is still increasing. It still leaves Twitter trailing Facebook, though, which boasts 60 million status updates a day.
And this is simply the number of tweets created – the number of deliveries is much higher, because each one is delivered to multiple followers.
The figure doesn’t even include spam.
At 140 characters per post – and let’s face it, most Twitter users like to make the most of it – we reckon that’s about 70 billion characters a day.
So maybe this is good news for keyboard manufacturers, as well as Twitter itself.