San Francisco (ip-192.com): Twitter is closing in on two billion tweets per month. The micro-blogging site reports that its users sent about 65 million tweets per day, or 44,500 tweets per minute. At the end of March, Twitter announced that it had reached 15 billion tweets. The new activity milestone comes only months after the social networking site said that it had surpassed 10 billion messages.
Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page. They are instantly delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Since late 2009, users can follow lists of authors instead of following individual authors.
In August 2009, San Antonio based market research firm Pear Analytics analyzed 2,000 English language tweets originating from the U.S. over a two-week period and said that 41 percent were pointless babble, 38 percent were conversational, 9 percent contained pass-along value, 6 percent of the messages were self-promotion, 4 percent did fall in the category spam, and 4 percent contained news.
Twitter COO Dick Costolo said at the Conversational Media Summit in New York City that 135,000 new users sign up at the site each day. While it may not be able to reach 6 billion tweets per month by the end of 2010 as predicted, growth is still accelerating. ComScore estimated that Twitter did have 83.6 million unique visitors worldwide in April and 23.8 million visitors in the U.S. in May.
To help commercial customers, Twitter will release an analytics dashboard. The announcement comes after Twitter said that it would allow advertisers to target tweets by topic.
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