Twitter handling 24 billion search queries per month

By on Jul 7, 2010 at 8:50 PM
Services July 7, 2010

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Twenty four billion. That is how many times users are searching Twitter per month; a truly gargantuan figure. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone noted that twitter.com now handles roughly 800 million search queries per day, a 33% increase from April of this year. To put that number in perspective, Yahoo! handles roughly 9.4 billion search queries per month, while Bing handles around 4.1 billion. Almost makes you a bit more tolerant of the fail whale, now doesn’t it.

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  • GeorgeO

    Q: How many searches does Google handle?

    • DroidX

      GOOGLE IT!

    • CannedCorn

      A: Google: 88 billion per month

  • DroidX

    I AM FIRST!

    • Fo Sho

      No you aren’t idiot.

    • John

      I hope one day you realize what an idiot you’ve been.

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  • CannedCorn

    ur mom is handling 24 billion dihx a month

  • 1100111

    google should buy twitter. and turn it into and advertising beast

  • Fo Sho

    Twitter is bullshit.

    • John

      Great contribution! My god, the comments on this blog are worse than on Youtube.

  • StevenGlansburg

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say again… Twitter is just a fad like low-carb diets.

    • 1100111

      I thought that at first too, then i started using it and its pretty cool. i like how it can be more fast-paced than facebook and how there isnt too much to deal with. you just tweet or look at people tweets.

  • 1100111

    I thought that at first too, then i started using it and its pretty cool. i like how it can be more fast-paced than facebook and how there isnt too much to deal with. you just tweet or look at people tweets

  • http://engraved-rings.net/ Rudy

    twitter….???? no coment

  • bob

    utterly useless noise

  • Sean

    72% of those being searches about bieber, lohan, and #twitterafterdark.

  • JB

    OK, so they’re handling 24B search queries per month. Against a database of 140 character entries. Looking for (more of less) exact hits. Doesn’t really compare to what Google, Bing, or Yahoo do (regardless of the volume), in terms of the degree of searching necessary or the size of the index it’s searching against.

  • http://alghienkad06.student.ipb.ac.id/ thea

    useless noise

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