Did you know that Twitter has 105-million-plus registered users and gets 300,000 new users per day? Or, that it receives 180-million visits every month? Well, you’ll find those interesting facts and more on this full infographic:
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Yahoo has formed a partnership with Twitter to help boost the company’s social features. With this partnership, users will be able “to view the short, 140-character messages created by Twitter users, dubbed Tweets, directly within Yahoo sites as well as to publish their own Twitter messages without leaving Yahoo.”
Yahoo also plans to display a live stream of Tweets within other online properties including its email service and sites devoted to sports, entertainment and finance later this year.
[via Yahoo]
That’s right, Twitter now processes 50-million tweets per day, and approximately 1.5-billion tweets per month. This data comes from Twitter itself, as “Royal Pindom was measuring 27 million Tweets a day back in November, 2009.” Continue reading for a visualization video that “uses Twitter searches for phrases like ‘just landed in’, ‘arrived at’ to create a real time trend of movement based on social networking information.”
What Twitter doesn’t say is how many of its users are responsible for those 50 million Tweets, or on average how many Tweets a day comes from each user.
Twitter just recently launched a new Twitter Engineering blog, and to kick things off, one team member, Ben Sandofsky, decided to share a video he made representing Twitter’s development history. The video was made using Code Swarm, a software tool used to visualize data.
As Sandofsky notes, “it isn’t exactly scientific, but it still goes to show Twitter’s explosive growth mirrored in engineering.” More importantly, it looks awesome. You can see the shift in Twitter development from Jack Dorsey in the early days (2006) to Blaine Cook to Alex Payne to Twitter’s now large team of developers. Each team member is represented in the video by their Twitter avatar.
Watch it below. It’s mesmerizing.
