Light on Twitter statistics in 2011

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging that allows users to send free short messages called Tweets ("tweets") over the Internet, instant messaging or SMS,

So the co-founder of Pyra Labs,

Announced by the CEO of Twitter these statistics for 2011 are:

•      100 million active users

•      market value estimated at $ 7 billion

•      9,000 tweets per second sent during the last storm in August 2011 in the U.S.

•      ability to add since April 2011 for small picture tweets

•      Maximun 140 characters allowed for a tweet

•      50 percent of tweets from moving platforms

•      five years of existence

•      launch in early 2012 the opportunity to add a video on a tweet. by TAATJENE