Twitter: One Billion Tweets. Wow.


	Twitter: One Billion Tweets. Wow.

arifsali

11-12-2008 2:44 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9e5ce029-d8f4-40f3-bdb5-590c7bf6088f/304A899D-2160-45A3-8B6E-C057B5E294DD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mashable.com/2008/11/12/twitter-one-billion-tweets-wow/" href="http://mashable.com/2008/11/12/twitter-one-billion-tweets-wow/" style="font-size: 11px;">mashable.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2008/11/12/twitter-one-billion-tweets-wow/"><P><IMG height="50" width="194" align="right" src="http://www.mashable.com/images/twitter.PNG" /><A target="_blank" href="http://popacular.com">Popacular</A>, a site that measures popularity of websites according to the number of related tweets, has a <A target="_blank" href="http://popacular.com/gigatweet/">huge counter</A> that counts the overall number of tweets. I don’t know how accurate this thing can be, given that it’s third party, but if it is, then we’ve recently surpassed the <STRONG>billionth tweet mark</STRONG>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2008/11/12/twitter-one-billion-tweets-wow/"><P>This is just another sign of how big Twitter has become. For comparison, Facebook recently announced they host <A href="http://mashable.com/2008/10/15/facebook-10-billion-photos/">10 billion photos in their database</A>; however, Facebook is huge and has been around much longer than Twitter. If anyone ever needed a clear sign that Twitter has gone mainstream - however you define it - this milestone is it. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/304A899D-2160-45A3-8B6E-C057B5E294DD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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