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Twitter Blog: #numbers

#tweets
  • 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet.
  • 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets.
  • 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago.
  • 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month.
  • 177 million. Tweets sent on March 11, 2011.
  • 456. Tweets per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time).
  • 6,939. Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day.

#accounts
  • 572,000. Number of new accounts created on March 12, 2011.
  • 460,000. Average number of new accounts per day over the last month.
  • 182%. Increase in number of mobile users over the past year.

#employees
  • 8. 29. 130. 350. 400. Number of Twitter employees in Jan 2008, Jan 2009, Jan 2010, Jan 2011 and today.

Google public data explorer

​Data visualizations for a changing world

​The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.

In the 1960's, families were big and life expectancy was low. Since then, families have gotten smaller, and life expectancy longer, in most countries.
Data from: World Development Indicators - World Bank

US unemployment started rising in 2008
Data from: Unemployment in the U.S. - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Some California counties have seen a huge increase in personal income per capita since 1969
Data from: GDP and Personal income of the U.S. - U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

STD's change since 1984
Data from: Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the U.S. - CDC/NCHHSTP

Unemployment rate for men has caught up with unemployment rate for women in the European Union
Data from: Unemployment by sex and age - Eurostat