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Twitter Passes 10B Tweets

Milestone comes just 4 months after No. 5B

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 4, 2010 10:10 PM CST

(Newser) – Just four months after it hit 5 billion, Twitter passed the 10 billion-tweet mark this evening. That’s according to Gigatweet, which, in the best high-volume-times tradition of the beast it tracks, went down around the milestone. Alas, Mashable reports, a protected user gave the world No. 10,000,000,000; here’s the one that followed.

The famous Twitter fail whale.
The famous Twitter fail whale.   (Wikimedia Commons)
A fail whale cookie
A fail whale cookie   (Wikimedia Commons)
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dax
Mar 5, 2010 5:33 AM CST
10 BILLION TWITS SERVED !
Kant
Mar 5, 2010 4:46 AM CST
I'll remember where I was when I heard the news.
 

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