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I'm confused... Where is this figure actually coming from? (Other than Scoble saying it.)

• adbachman 17y ago
  According to him, it's the number given by "people who are getting the firehose feed." http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/50e673d8/some-stats-from-twitter-conference-compared-to#c-6154ef056a9246b69ed763d361ba1c38 http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/50e673d8/some-stats-from-tw...
  • icey 17y ago
    That makes the headline seem a bit linkbaity to me. It also makes me question the validity of the data.
• Maciek416 17y ago
  Another way to extract this figure is to monitor the ids of tweets like the Twitpocalypse site is doing. We've been monitoring Twitpocalypse for a while, and the data yields the following chart: http://img.skitch.com/20090529-xhhnr83xsy67burr7w24kycp4u.png http://img.skitch.com/20090529-xhhnr83xsy67burr7w24kycp4u.pn... From the slope, we saw about 200 tweets/second, sometimes peaking at 250 as well. The right axis in this chart is the number of tweets per minute. You can see it rising and falling through the day.
  • icey 17y ago
    Hold on a minute. Are we talking about peak load or average load? Saying Twitter averages 200 tweets/second is vastly different than peaking at 200 tweets a second. Am I just being slow? Edit: Nevermind, Robert is saying that the average is 200 tweets/second during periods of peak load. The headline here makes it seem like the maximum capacity is 200 tweets/second which is misleading.
    • Maciek416 17y ago
      I think what the data shows is that the average sort of wobbles around a bit. Check out the update to my post for a new image link to see it varying throughout the day.