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Twitter Hits 50M Tweets a Day as Cybercriminals Watch
Fifty million. That’s how many tweets Twitter users send every day. It’s the latest stat in a micro-blogging growth story that has taken the social-media world by storm. But as corporations and celebrities join the fray, cybercriminals are lying in wait with spam scams.
Kevin Weil of Twitter’s analytics team posted a graph on the company’s blog that tells the story of how the service has grown over the past three years in number of tweets created per day — not counting tweets from accounts identified as spam.
The results: Users tweeted 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400 percent last year to 35 million per day. Today, Weil reported, Twitter sees 50 million tweets per day — an average of 600 tweets per second.
“Tweet deliveries are a much higher number because once created, tweets must be delivered to multiple followers. Then there is search and so many other ways to measure and comprehend growth across this information network,” Weil said. “Tweets per day is just one number to think about.”
The Dynamic (Social Networking) Duo
Twitter’s revelation comes on the heels of a Nielsen report that consumers spent more than five and a half hours a month on social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December. That’s an 82 percent increase over December 2008, when users were spending just more than three hours on social-networking sites. What’s more, Nielsen reports, overall traffic to social-networking sites has grown over the last three years.
Not surprisingly, Facebook remained the leading global social-networking destination in December. Sixty-seven percent of global social-media users visited the site during the last month of 2009, and spent almost six hours a month on the site. Among the top five U.S. social-networking sites,…
source : www.newsfactor.com
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