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Date Tweets per day
Mar 1, 2006 0
Mar 1, 2007 5,000
Mar 1, 2008 300,000
Jan 1, 2009 2,500,000
Dec 1, 2009 35,000,000
Feb 1, 2010 50,000,000
** Reference: Schrodeder, Stan, “Twitter’s Amazing Growth Suddenly Stops” Mashable.com, June 2010
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12500000
25000000
37500000
50000000
Mar 1, 2006 Jan 1, 2009
Number of Tweets per Day
S-Curve of Twitter Chito Peppler, ISTM 224, Feb 2010
** An increasing number of registered users, tweets and applications developed over time
** Figure of Merit: Number of Tweets per application developed.
** Applications enabled by this technology: Microblogging, social networking and news sharing. Over 1,000
Twitter applications have been created, 50 million daily tweets.
** Starting point of the curve: March 2006 when Twitter was formed by Evan Williams when he worked for a
podcasting company he co-founded, Odeo in Silicon Valley.
** Ultimate Limiting Phenomenon: Based on an Oct 2009 study by www.royal.pingdom.com, the highest
number of tweets per hour measured was 1,841,289. Twitter is projected to process 10 billion tweets/year.
** Twitter can only handle so many users at one time. During the 2010 Super Bowl, Twitter was brought down
20 times. In Dec, 2009, Twitter was hacked and defaced by the “Iranian Cyber Army” showing its vulnerability
to hacking and denial of service. ** According to RJ Metrics, in Dec 2009, only 17% of Twitter accounts
posted tweets, down from 70% in early 2007
1,450 % increase in 2009
10-15 million active
Tweeters
600 Tweets per sec.March 2010
Twitter founded in March 2006