Seven quick facts about Twitter
- Twitter said in February 2013 that it has 200 million monthly active users***
- Twitter normally takes in more than 500 million Tweets per day* which means about 5,700 Tweets a second*
- Number of tweets that happen every second = 5,700*
- Twitter recently hit a record-breaking pace of 143,199 Tweets per second on August 2, 2013 at 7:21:50 PDT a rate 25 times greater than Twitter’s steady state*
- Twitter offers Twitter Univeristy to its engineering team to help employees learn and grow**
- Like other social networks, Twitter oes offer analytic, but only if you are a paid advertiser!***
- Twitter’s Annual Advertising Revenue for 2013 is projected to be $399,500,000***
*Source: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/new-tweets-per-second-record-and-how
**Source: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/twitter-university-building-a-world-class-engineering-organization
***Source: https://business.twitter.com/products/analytics
