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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 t
by 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 agoHold 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 agoI 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.