Have you ever wondered just how many tweets have been twatted sent via Twitter? Not to quote Apple, but there is an app for that.
GigaTweet (no affiliation with GigaOm) tracks the total number of tweets tweeted, in real time. It also aggregates tweets per hour in millions, and gives a few months of historical data. Guess the total number of tweets? It seems that 4.88 billion tweets have been written.
That is a lot of spam and bathroom updates.
It is almost hypnotizing to watch the numbers spin towards five billion. As of right now, 4,888,639,386 tweets have gone live. But, by the time that you read this, that number will be far out of date. Check out the application here. They have a selection of higher resolution graphs here.
Oh, and help the crusade to five billion by tweeting this story, of course. H/T JeffJarvis.
twatted?!
Don’t forget that tweet ID has been increased artificially twice during the two twitpocalypse “events”.
You can find more graphs on http://tweespeed.com and manipulate the URL arguments to change the period.
Examples:
Nbr of tweets by hour for the last 24 hours
http://www.tweespeed.com/speeds.jsp?period=hour&duration=24
Nbr of tweets by hour for the last week
http://www.tweespeed.com/speeds.jsp?period=hour&duration=168
Nbr of tweets by hour for the last 6 month
http://www.tweespeed.com/speeds.jsp?period=hour&duration=4320
On the last (but awfull, I know) graph, you can see the trend !
Cheers !
Do you watch the Daily Show? Here, watch this: http://www.ffwd.com/videos/121757772?ctid=9&cvid=42794&nextvideo=
“Videos are not currently available in UK.”
I’ve always taken ‘twatted’ as this: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twatted
If I could, I would link you to a bootleg version of the video. You could, not at my suggestion, do a search for “daily show twitter” and probably find something that might work.
Also, great link, had forgotten since the Jon Stewart bit.