In Case You Didn't Know Twitter Is Growing Fast - Very Very Fast

I have been following the Chirp conference today where Evan Williams, who goes by @ev, disclosed Twitter growth numbers in his keynote and shared their pains, gains, and priorities. We all know that Twitter is growing fast � very, very fast � but here is the summary of those numbers that tells us what that growth actually looks like:

105 million registered users and they add 300k uses every day
3 billion API request a day (equivalent to Yahoo traffic)
55 million new tweets every day
600 million search queries every day
175 employees
75% traffic comes from third party clients
60% tweets come from third party clients
100,000 registered apps
180 million unique visitors on Twitter.com (you don�t have to be a user)
FlockDB, their social graph database that they just open sourced, stores 13 billion edges
They started using �Murder� a new BitTorrent platform to transfer files during development. This reduced the transfer time from 40 minutes to 12 seconds
Made deals with 65 (telco) carriers
37% of active users use Twitter on their phone (@ev wants this number to be 100%)

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