1. It is estimated that there are nearly 280,000,000 Twitter accounts.
  2. There are currently 110 million tweets per day from the 200 million registeered users.
  3. The current rate of tweeting is 1,200 Tweets per second (tps), but these increase during dramatically important events. The Superbowl at one stage saw 4,064 tps with the second highest peak during the superbowl was during the half-time ads rather than the game itself.
  4. Twitter generates 10TB a day. That’s ten times what the New York Stock Exchange produces. It’s all generated from 140 character tweets which are individually 200 bytes per tweet. A phenomenal amount of text.
  5. There are currently 200m registered users with a growth continuing at a higher pace than before.
  6. Top three twitter-users by number of followers – @ladygaga (8.3m), @justinbieber (8.1m), @barakobama (7.0m)