Twitter’s Chirp Conference 2010: Day 1 Recap

So I just finished watching the live stream of the Chirp Conference and it was very interesting stuff. If you’re not familiar with the conference, Chirp is Twitter’s first conference for app developers. It’s a two day conference held at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Today’s speakers included Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Ryan Sarver, Dick Costolo, and a few others. The topics that were covered included OAuth, streaming, geolocation, business strategies, mobile integration, product roadmap, third-party developers, monetization, and Twitter’s @anywhere platform which just went live a few hours ago.

Co-founder Biz Stone kicked off the event with some key statistics about the company. Biz revealed that Twitter now has 105 million registered users, or to be exact, 105,779,710 registered users since its launch in 2006. He went on to say that Twitter is also adding 300,000 new users each day and about 60% of these users are coming from outside the U.S. According to my math, that’s 180,000 new signups coming from outside the U.S. and 120,000 coming within the U.S each day. While these are very impressive numbers, I have to wonder how many people sign up for multiple Twitter accounts, how many users are currently active, and how many signups are spam users or bots. Nonetheless, to learn more about all the statistics revealed at Chirp visit Chirp Conference – 2010: Twitter Statistics Revealed.

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Chirp Conference – 2010: Twitter Statistics Revealed

Kicking off Chirp, Twitter’s developers conference, co-founder Biz Stone took the stage this morning and revealed some surprising statistics about the company and its growth. Take a look at some of those statistics listed below.

  • Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users
  • 300,000 new users sign up each day
  • Approximately 60% of all new signups are coming from outside the U.S.
  • Twitter receives 180 million unique visitors each month
  • 60% of all tweets come from third-party apps
  • 75% of Twitter traffic comes from third-party apps
  • Twitter now has 175 employees
  • There are 600 million search queries on Twitter each day
  • There are more than 100,000 Twitter apps on the market
  • Twitter gets 3 billion requests each day through its API
  • 37% of active Twitter users use their mobile phone to send tweets
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