Twitter in Numbers @Chirp

@ChirpChrip – Twitter’s firstDevelopers Conference is going on in SF right now. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone started with the an intro speech followed by co-founder Ev Williams and then Ryan Sarver (Director of Platform). They had some really important data to share (You can also watch the live stream here).

Twitter in numbers

Personally a lot of it was a huge surprise for me, especially the number of registered users. Until yesterday every one used to quote the number of registered Twitter users to 55 million, this took a 100% jump today! A lot of other highly relevant data was shared.

  • 105 million registered user (105,779,710 to be accurate)
  • 300k new users every day
  • 180 million unique visitors a month
  • 75% traffic comes from outside Twitter (3rd party sites and platform)
  • 175 employees as compared to 25 a year ago.
  • 19 Billion searches per month or 600 million per day a lot of them through API. A lot more than Yahoo! (9.4 B) and Bing (4.1 B). 20% of Google (88 B) – Data from comScore -Jan 2010
  • 100,000 registered Apps
  • 3 billion API request per day
  • 1500% growth rate (per year)
  • 37% active users user Twitter from their mobile phones
  • 55 million tweets created every day (very very close to facebook here – facebook has 60 million status updates per day)

Is Twitter on its way to become pulse of the planet with 1 Billion users by 2013?

Social Media is growing at a phenomenal speed! Check out the Jaw Dropping speed of growth of Social Media in the simulation embedded below

Jaw Dropping… Isn’t it?



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