In Case You Didn't Know Twitter Is Growing Fast - Very Very Fast

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%)