Five years ago this week a small group of people started working on the prototype of a service now known as Twitter. On March 21, 2006 Jack Dorsey (jack @) sent the first Tweet. Today
Twitter is growing at record speeds, however you measure. Here are some numbers: #
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- 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time taken by the first billionth Tweet.
- 1 week. The time needed today to reach one billion Tweet.
- 50 million. The average number of Tweet sent per day, a year ago.
- 140 million. The average number of Tweet sent per day, last month.
- 177 million. Tweet sent on 11 March 2011.
- 456. Tweet per second (TPS) on the day of the death of Michael Jackson, 25 June 2009 (the record of the time).
- 6.939. The current record of TPS, established four seconds after midnight on New Year's Eve in Japan.
# users
- 572.000. The number of new users created March 12, 2011.
- 460.000. The average number of new accounts created per day last month.
- 182%. The increase in the number of mobile users last year.
# employees
- 8. 29. 130. 350. 400. Number of Employees Twitter in January 2008, January 2009, January 2010, January 2011 and today.
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