I have been following the Chirp conference today where Evan Williams, who goes by @ev , disclosed Twitter growth numbers in his keynote and...
I have been following the Chirp conference today where Evan Williams, who goes by @ev, disclosed Twitter growth numbers in his keynote and shared their pains, gains, and priorities. We all know that Twitter is growing fast � very, very fast � but here is the summary of those numbers that tells us what that growth actually looks like:
- 105 million registered users and they add 300k uses every day
- 3 billion API request a day (equivalent to Yahoo traffic)
- 55 million new tweets every day
- 600 million search queries every day
- 175 employees
- 75% traffic comes from third party clients
- 60% tweets come from third party clients
- 100,000 registered apps
- 180 million unique visitors on Twitter.com (you don�t have to be a user)
- FlockDB, their social graph database that they just open sourced, stores 13 billion edges
- They started using �Murder� a new BitTorrent platform to transfer files during development. This reduced the transfer time from 40 minutes to 12 seconds
- Made deals with 65 (telco) carriers
- 37% of active users use Twitter on their phone (@ev wants this number to be 100%)
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