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500 million tweets a day means that users are getting some kind of positive reinforcement for posting, and that it's more than celebrities.
by guelo 13y ago
500 million tweets a day means that users are getting some kind of positive reinforcement for posting, and that it's more than celebrities.
- yapcguy 13y agoHow many are retweets rather than original tweets? How many are spam? How many are shady i.e. pay folk in the Philippines or Pakistan to send out tweets all day, to boost the numbers?
- bolder88 13y ago500m tweets a day is nothing. That's only 5,700 tweets a second. An average IRC network for example does more than that.
- cscheid 13y agoThe number your comparison is missing, and one that happens to be crucial to both business and technical differences, is that you should be looking at tweet impressions, not tweets.
- hboon 13y agoAlso interesting is if impressions should be counting followers of the tweet author or only if the follower reads it. Many users are following so many accounts that they can only read only a small subset of their timeline. I wonder if Twitter's apps and services also have to evolve substantially like Facebook's did to include more elaborate filtering and ranking options.