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Amit Khajuria
Travel back in time to January 2009 and you'll discover that Twitter users were sending out 2 million tweets a day. Fast forward to today in which we're halfway through 2011, and users on Twitter are now hammering out 200 million tweets each day from their PCs, tablets, and mobile phones, the microblogging service announced in a blog post. That works out to a billion tweets every five days. In case you were wondering, pop singer Rebecca Black is the top trending topic in pop culture so far in 2011, followed by Britney Spears' newly released Femme Fatale album, Charlie Sheen, #tigerblood, and Nate Dogg. In world events and news, the top trending topics include AH1N1 (swine flu), Mubarak (former Egyptian President), Easter, Cairo, and #prayforjapan.
"For perspective, every day, the world writes the equivalent of a 10 million page book in tweets or 8,163 copies of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace," Twitter said. "Reading this much text would take more than 31 years and stacking this many copies of War and Peace would reach the height of about 1,470 feet, nearly the ground-to-roof height of Taiwan's Taipei 101, the second tallest building in the world."
A year ago Twitter users were sending out 65 million tweets a day, and last March that number stood at 140 million. Those numbers might be a little deceiving, however. TechCrunch points out that at least some of those are coming from bots, while a small percentage of power users reportedly account for half of all tweets with links, at least according to a study published in 2010.
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