For those waiting for Twitter to go away: Don’t hold your breath.
This is how many new Tweets are created per day, not how many are delivered, which would be a much bigger number.
One day, they might even make some money.
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Fuck.
I’m sure Myspace could have shown us a graph like that 3 years ago. Of course they’re still here too, but no one seems to care.
I smell a bubble here.
I’d guess a graph of how many tweets are actually READ per day looks a lot less steep.
now that’s exponential growth.
99% of that is SPAM.
@8 – No, they accounted for spam, and the graph doesn’t reflect it.
Go, Twitter, go! Haters.
they already turned a profitable quarter last december.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/t…
Wow, the number’s doubled since approximately last summer.
Whoops, graph comprehension fail time. It’s doubled since the Fall, and quadrupled since last summer. Fuck.
omg im looking at crazy twitter graph right now #twiterboom :0 tweet tweet tweet : )
If you hate Twitter, shut up and don’t use it.
Right because every time I post a comment on Huffington Post I make sure to Facebook and Twitter it.
Why?
Because I’m a fucking sucker who things that anything I say will be seized upon by masses of waiting acolytes who will one day hang upon my every utterance.
@ 15, you’re right. I hate twitter and i won’t use it. It is that simple.
@15: I would be able to just roll my eyes and ignore it if it weren’t for newscasters constantly taking time away from, y’know, reporting the news to check what random bullshit has just been tweeted about this or that. I don’t care what some idiot on Twitter thinks of your last story on the weather, just get to the next bulletin already!
I love Twitter–it’s like AOL used to be: a great tool if you want to sell stuff to suckers, and if you’re not selling anything, it’s easy to ignore.
how many of those posts are useless? You’re looking at the same exact graph.
People will soon get tired of talking to themselves on twitter and find a new service to talk to themselves on.
Everyone I know who tried it dropped it soon; their “churn rate” is supposed to be incredible.
Little-known fact: Tweets were limited to 140 characters to be compatible with cellphone SMS messaging.