Twitter By Numbers

twitter by numberS Five years ago this week, a small team of people started working on a prototype of the service that we now know as Twitter. On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first Tweet. @jack Today, on every measure of growth and engage- ment, Twitter is growing at a record pace. Here are some numbers: Фbiz @ev tweets Tweets Per Second 6939 tttt t t E E E E E ttttt E Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year's Day. TPS when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time). З уears, 2 months and 1 day 1 WEEK From the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets. 50м 177M Tweets sent per day (one year ago) 140M WM' Tweets sent per day (in the last month) Tweets sent on March 11, 2011. *accounts x 460 K 182% AJ000 + 572 K New accounts created on March 12, 2011. New accounts per day over the last month. Increase in number of mobile users over the past year. *employees twtr 29 130 350 400 January 2010 January January January 2011 Today 2008 2009 Yopps 2011 http://yopps.com - All the informations and datas are provided by Twitter, Inc.