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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