Lucky Number 10 Billion

Of all the sites created out there, there is actually one that monitors the number of total Tweets on Twitter since its conception.

Gigatweet, a site launched to calculate how many Tweets have currently been cited, noted yesterday when Twitter was an hour away from the 10 billionth tweet. The number of tweets on Twitter has exponentially increased, with the last 5 billion posted in the short span of 5 months. When you boil down the math, that's 1 billion tweets PER MONTH!

But how was this estimation calculated?

Gigatweet is basing this anticipated "hour" on the previous posting data. The range of sources it used showed that Twitter received about 50 million tweets per day.

To find out when Twitter would hit the first 5 billionth tweet, watchers were looking at numbers associated with the URL of each tweet sent. Thusly, 9996229078 = 9,996,229,078. Whomever came up with Twitpocalypse for every 5 billion tweets will probably see that term soon in on Urbandictionary.com.

Ryan King, a Twitter employee, admits that this "science" is considered more numerology than calculating math. Although the number is not 100% accurate, it's a big responsibility -- and his job. Interestingly enough, the 5 billionth Tweeter now works at Twitter, possibly opening up an opportunity for lucky number 10 billion.

On a follow-up, the 10 billionth tweeter used a protected stream which limited username visibility. And Twitter co-founder, Ev Williams, said the whole crew anticipated this monumental tweet together on the big screens. Perhaps number 15 billion will come in a matter of months.