Twitter breaks record with 2bn tweets a month

Twitter breaks record with 2bn tweets a month

June 10, 2010

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Brussels:

Twitter reached 15 billion tweets at the end of May, three months after it broke the 10-billion-a-month count.

Dick Costolo, the company's chief operating officer, said around 65 million tweets are sent on the microblogging site each day, which adds up to an average 1.96 billion tweets every month.

The site sees around 135,000 new registration each day, Costolo said. But it is not clear how many of those are individuals rather than business. The increasingly influential company announced on Monday that it was hiring a Washington liaison to manage relations with the White House. Last month, Castolo earmarked Los Angeles and New York as the bases that would probably be next on the company's expansion list. Then it will be the turn of the UK and Japan, where the site is witnessing "massive" growth.

The number of tweets has doubied since December 2009. Based on a progression of Twitter's growth, Pingdom, which is an uptime analytics house, said it could predict the 2-billion-tweets-per-month milestone.