Twitter's Amazing Virtual World Stats

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It is amazing how fast the Virtual World can grow!

Today Twitter released some stats on it's growth since it began in 2006, and the numbers are quite impressive.

http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html

Here are some of the high points:

# of tweets

• 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet.
• 1 week.  The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets.

• 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago.
• 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month.
• 177 million. Tweets sent on March 11, 2011.

# of accounts

• 572,000.  Number of new accounts created on March 12, 2011.
• 460,000.  Average number of new accounts per day over the last month.

Mobile use

• 182%.  Increase in number of mobile users over the past year.

The growth of Twitter has truly been incredible to watch.  I remember back in the spring of 2008 (or was it 2007?) hearing about this new site called "Twitter".  I checked it out and saw how it worked.  I decided to sign up and knew that having a cool username was a great thing.  Almost everything I tried as a username was still available, big city names, cool words and so on.  I registered a few city names and left it at that.  I wish I had picked up a few more good handles for different interests I have, but there was no way of knowing how big Twitter would become.  Now that they are getting over half a million new accounts per day, it must be really hard to get a good username!


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