
Twitter / Fail Bird illustration by @MyklRoventine
Here’s a nice numeric rundown of everyone’s favorite how-the-hell-do-I-market-with-this? social media channel, released at Twitter’s Chirp Conference on April 14th, and taken from Edmund Lee’s article in Ad Age: Chat, Stats and Secrets About Twitter.
Though brief, the following is sadly 109 characters over limit. ^CR
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105,779,710 registered users
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60% of those are from outside the U.S.
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180 million unique monthly visitors
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75% of all Twitter traffic comes from outside of Twitter.com
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3,000,000,000 requests per day to Twitter’s API
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19 billion searches per month