A look at the escalation of tweets per second over the years tells us that Twitter has blossomed into the social network of record for current affairs.
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Remarkably, just one year ago, the tweets per second record was just 6,939 (set four seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day), which highlights that Twitter activity growth is only accelerating.
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Today, Twitter averages 250 million tweets per day and has 100 global active users across the world.
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