Tweet This Milestone: Twitter Passes MySpace - Digits. Twitter Seeing 6 Billion API Calls Per Day, 70K Per Second. Last week, Twitter engineer Raffi Krikorian presented a number of new stats about the microblogging service as part of a recruiting talk at UC Berkeley.
One interesting stat involves the number of API calls that the site is seeing: Krikorian says that Twitter is seeing 6 billion API calls per day, or 70,000 per second. That’s more than double the amount (3 billion API calls) that Twitter was seeing in April, according to the Programmable Web. Some of the stats, including the fact that Twitter is seeing 90 million Tweets per day, we also heard at Twitter’s news event this past week. Krikorian delved into the amount of data storage each Tweet includes in terms of text (200 bytes for 140 characters). Twitter is seeing 800 Tweets per second, or 12GBs of Twitter text. Twitter had a considerable amount of downtime over the summer due to record usage because of the World Cup, and was forced to cut API limits on Tweet read requests. Here's Twitter's Big Problem: It's Not Going Mainstream.
More People, And Inevitably Scammers, Are Using Twitter. 2010 thus far has been a year of milestones in terms of online population, with Facebook hitting 500 million active users and Twitter reaching 100 million users.
This growth explosion is not without its dark side; a rising tide lifts all boats, even the more miscreant ones. According to a report by Barracuda Labs, both general and questionable activity is increasing on Twitter, due primarily to the company’s open API and easy account set-up. With more than 50 million tweets per day, and 600 million search queries per day, user activity is at an all time high: Nielsen posits unique visits to the site have grown at a rate of 45% compared to last year.
Highlights from the report: CHART OF THE DAY: Is Twitter In Trouble? STATS: Has Twitter Flatlined Just Short of Mainstream? Somewhere around this date, every month, we look at the stats from various web analytics companies, and check how the most important social media and social networking sites are doing.
And don't get us wrong: these stats can be biased (Compete, for example, is US-biased) and they can be wrong (sometimes they will report a fall or decline in traffic even when the reality is quite the opposite). But when we see a trend that goes on for four months, there must be something to it. And that's exactly what's been happening to Twitter: according to Compete, it has flatlined for the last four months, showing absolutely no growth as far as uniques, visits, or rank go. And it's not just Compete: Quantcast paints pretty much the same picture, and Twitter CEO Evan Williams has recently admitted that their traffic has stalled in the US. It's interesting, because it's hard to find a reason why this is happening. Site Profile for twitter.com (rank #43) Twitter.com - Quantcast Audience Profile. Inside Twitter Clients. In this report, Sysomos explores the different applications used to post updates on Twitter.
We analyzed a sample of more than 500 million tweets collected over the past five months to determine the most popular applications. As the chart below shows, Twitter.com is the most popular application with 46% of all tweets, while TweetDeck is a distant second with 8.48%. Since Sysomos published its initial Twitter report in June, Twitter.com's market share has climbed slightly from 45.7%, while TweetDeck has dropped from 19.7%. The vast majority (82%) of active Twitter users stick to a single application; 14% use two applications, while 2.35% use three applications. Note: We only took into account active users - people with at least 50 tweets in the past five months.
The choice of a particular Twitter application has much to do with a person's level of activity. Sysomos' products include. Twitter.com Is Still the Most Popular Twitter Client - TweetDeck. Twitter's own homepage is still the most popular tool for users to update their status on Twitter.
Around 46% of all updates are made directly on the site. Social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos analyzed 500 million tweets it collected over the past 5 months and found that TweetDeck is the most popular third-party client. TweetDeck has a comfortable lead with a 8.48% share of the market, followed by Tweetie, Twitterific and Seesmic. Update: There was a mistake in Sysomos' report.
Twitter.com's share actually grew slightly from 45.7% in June to 46.7%. Twitter Statistics: The Full Picture. As more and more data comes out on Twitter’s growth, people are beginning to ask just how it all fits together.
That in mind, here are the most recent compiled statistics that we have on Twitter, as of January 2010. How many people visited Twitter.com in January worldwide? According to comScore it was nearly 75,000,000. Not YouTube numbers, but that represents some 1,100% growth in a year. Multiplying yourself eleven times in twelve months or so must count as explosive growth. Where does that put them in the United States? But what about people Tweeting and not using the web interface? Why the discrepancy? Costolo: Twitter Now Has 190 Million Users Tweeting 65 Million T. Twitter COO Dick Costolo offered some updated stats at the Conversational Media Summit today in New York City.
Twitter is now attracting 190 million visitors per month and generating 65 million Tweets a day. “We’re laying down track as fast as we can in front of the train,” says Costolo. These numbers are up slightly from 180 million self-reported unique visitors per month back in April, and 50 million Tweets per day in February. The number of visitors to Twitter.com is not the same as the number of registered users. 65 million tweets a day, s... Twitter: 125 million users and climbing.
Twitter’s growth is still accelerating.
The service has reached 125 million registered users, up from 105 million almost two months ago. When the company said it had 105,779,710 million registered users on April 14 at its first developer conference, Chirp, in San Francisco, it said it was growing by roughly 300,000 accounts a day. Today, Twitter spokesperson Sean Garrett said the company had 125 million accounts, meaning it’s been growing at an average pace of about 340,000 new registered users a day since Chirp. Twitter’s chief operating officer, Dick Costolo, said two days ago in New York that the company was seeing 190 million unique visitors a month to Twitter.com, up from 180 million visitors in April. But visitors are different from active users, which is what competitor Facebook tracks. Facebook, by contrast, can only display ads to a person if they’re logged into the social network. Facebook has also been engaged in some statistical finagling. Twitter Growth: Happening All Over The Globe (Graphs)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may no longer be worried about Twitter and its impressive growth rate – and he shouldn’t be – but that won’t keep the micro-sharing service from continuing to boast impressive growth numbers all around the world.
Online analytics firm comScore noted Twitter’s overall continued growth, even based on incomplete data (third-party client users aren’t included in its numbers), and now Pingdom is doing its share by pointing out where exactly Twitter’s staggering international expansion is happening right now. The short version: just about everywhere. Pingdom took a look at Google Trends for Websites traffic data for Twitter.com to see where the service is experiencing the fastest growth in terms of monthly usage. Again, that means its findings are far more fit for deducing overall trends than they are able to accurately detail Twitter’s user numbers, since a lot of people use desktop and mobile clients for tweeting. Latin America Asia Europe and Russia.