Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING.

Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by axod on Monday February 22, 2010 @04:53PM (#1143839)

It's pretty hard to draw any conclusions at all from this.

The number is very low compared with other communication mediums - IRC, IM, SMS, Email, facebook. Clearly they've grown well, but they have a long way to go yet.

The other point is that a large(ish) proportion of twitter seems to be bots and automated tweeting. It's hard to guess how much though.

>> "These numbers are definitely noteworthy and provide evidence against the perception that Twitter is not growing"

It doesn't provide any insight into what is growing though. Are people genuinely using twitter more, or are bots using it more, spammers, PR etc

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Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by justinhj on Monday February 22, 2010 @05:23PM (#1143918)

Except the post explicitly mentions that spams are removed.

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Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by axod on Monday February 22, 2010 @05:27PM (#1143926)

"Please note that tweets from accounts identified as spam have been removed so the counts in this chart do not include spam."

Yeah call me crazy, but I expect there's a large amount of spam, bots, auto reposters, etc included in there.

It's hardly a trivial thing to identify and remove spam. Especially where your data is limited to 140 characters.

The other question would be are retweets included in the total.

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