There Are Now 200 Million Tweets Being Sent Per Day

There Are Now 200 Million Tweets Being Sent Per Day


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By on July 1, 2011

There Are Now 200 Million Tweets Being Sent Per Day

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It's hard to imagine that when Twitter first launched in 2006 it'd become the monstrous cloud of information it is today.

To say the service fundamentally changed the world by changing the way we communicate isn't even an overstatement — it's really become a fulcrum for culture in more ways that one.

I mean, at its worst it helps peddle fat burning pills and becomes a dispensary for dong shots; but at its best, it's an open channel for discourse and teaching, even occasionally becoming a tool for mobilizing movements.