San Francisco (ip-192.com): 50 Million Tweets per day and counting: this is the amount of coverage Twitter users produce now, said Kevin Weil, an analyst with the micro blogging site. These numbers do not include Tweets from accounts identified as spam. Added up, this amounts to about 1.5 billion Tweets a month.
In 2007, Twitter had only 5,000 Tweets per day, a number that jumped to 300,000 in 2008 and 2.5 million in 2009. Throughout last year, however, the average number of Tweets jumped 1,400 percent to 35 million each day.
20 per cent of tweets, or roughly 83 messages per second, contain a reference to a product or brand, according to Twitters vice president of communications Sean Garrett. Twitter continues to attract influential users, including Google's Eric Schmidt, Microsoft's Bill Gates, and the Dalai Lama.
If you look at the mountain of data produced, Twitter is now close to the 60 million status updates Facebook sees a day, despite its much larger base of 400 million users.
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