Twitter brakes the 1 billion barrier
Thats a average of almost 40 million per day and it’s rising. Twitter is certainly not out of the game.
Some interesting observations:
- December 2009 was the first month Twitter processed more than one billion tweets (with 1.036 billion tweets).
- January 2010 had 16 times as many tweets as January 2009.
- The activity on Twitter has doubled since August 2009.
- January 2010 saw more tweets per day (39.5 million) than the whole of September 2008.

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