Twitter celebrates its fifth birthday. Did you know that the time that elapsed from the first ‘tweet’ to the ‘tweet’ 1 billion was 3 years, 2 months and a day? On the anniversary of the popular microblogging platform we gathered ten figures that you are interested in knowing.
3 years, 2 months and 1 day. It is the time that elapsed from the first ‘tweets’ to the ‘tweets’ one billion.
1 week. The time it takes users today to send a billion ‘tweets’.
50 million. The average number of ‘tweets’ that people sent per day, a year ago.
140 million. The average number of ‘tweets’ that people sent per day, in the last month.
456. ‘Tweets’ per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (the record at the time).
6939. The current TPS record, reached 4 seconds after midnight in Japan in the New Year.
543,000. Record number of new accounts created in one day, March 11, 2011, coinciding with the earthquake in Japan.
460,000. Average number of new accounts per day in the last month.
182%. Increase in the number of mobile users in the last year.
8. 29. 130. 350. 400. Number of Twitter employees in January 2008, January 2009, January 2010, January 2011, and today.
