Tweets Per Day

Over the past three years twitter has not only exploded in popularity, but had exploded in the amount of tweets per day. In the summer of 2007, their was hardly 5,000 tweets per day, and stayed that way until summer of 2009 where it jumped from 5,000 to 2.5 million. However the astounding jump came within the next few months. Twitter went from 2.5 million tweets per day to 50 million tweets per day, which is where it stands now. Tweets grew on average 1,400% - that's an average of 600 tps (tweets per second).