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How Did Twitter Misjudge the World Cup?

By Mark Evans | Published: June 12, 2010
Surprise, surprise: Twitter has been savaged by the World Cup. In a blog post, Twitter concedes that it has: “experienced several incidences of poor site performance and a high number of errors due to one of our internal sub-networks being over-capacity.” In other words, there has been a spike in traffic that Twitter has been [...]
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uTweet, MeTweet, WeTweet

By Mark Evans | Published: April 6, 2010
Not sure about the utility of uTweet but it’s certainly entertaining:
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A Global Take on Tweets/Minute

By Mark Evans | Published: March 30, 2010
Ever wonder what cities are tweeting the most at a particular time? Tweet-o-Meter attempts to provide some answers. The service was created by Steven James Gray.
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How Twitter Got to 10 Billion Tweets

By Mark Evans | Published: March 22, 2010
Here’s a cool graph that shows Twitter’s path to 10 billion tweets. It was created by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant.
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When Do Twitter Users Sleep?

By Mark Evans | Published: March 19, 2010
Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, and checked out Twitter? You’ll probably be surprised to see how much tweet-age is happening by people who should be asleep. For example @parislemon seems to happily get by on just a few hours of sleep given his Twitter activity. If you’re at all [...]
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Next Stop, 20 Billion Tweets

By Mark Evans | Published: March 5, 2010
Twitter just passed through the 10 billion-tweet barrier. According to GigaTweet, it will only be 202 days (approx. Sept. 15) before the 20-billion barrier is cracked. Go, Twitter, Go!
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