12 Million People Tweet 27.3 Million Times

by Ari Herzog on Nov. 16, 2009


…every day.

Think about that for a moment. Brian Solis indicates this is comparable to the number of Yahoo instant message status updates sent every month, with the caveat Yahoo has five times more users than Twitter.

Twitter usage statistics

Swedish research firm Pingdom tracked every Twitter message sent from October 21 to November 11 and published their findings that 27.3 million tweets are sent every day around the world.

Average tweets per day

It’s intriguing that Tuesday is the most popular day of the week to tweet, as my Twitter statistics indicate Friday is most frequent.

Twitter statistics

These statistics provide further proof that Twitter has established itself as a global force for companies to reckon with. People are tweeting. Maybe they’re tweeting about your brand — from their cellphones while in your stores. Are you listening?

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