Twitter users tweets equal to writing 10 million-page book each dayJuly 1, 2011 - 12:08 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Users on Twitter are now sending 200 million Tweets per day halfway through 2011, Twitter Official Blog announced. For context on the speed of Twitter’s growth, in January of 2009, users sent two million Tweets a day, and one year ago they posted 65 million a day. “For perspective, every day, the world writes the equivalent of a 10 million-page book in Tweets or 8,163 copies of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Reading this much text would take more than 31 years and stacking this many copies of War and Peace would reach the height of about 1,470 feet, nearly the ground-to-roof height of Taiwan’s Taipei 101, the second tallest building in the world,” Twitter Blog sayd. A billion Tweets are sent every five days. People write everything about every topic imaginable. And, here are the top Trending Topics for the first half of 2011, divided into the two most popular categories: AH1N1 - Swine Flu, Mubarak - former Egyptian President, Easter - Christian holiday, Cairo - capital of Egypt, #prayforjapan - sentiment following the March earthquake and tsunami, Chernobyl - site of nuclear disaster in 1986, Libia/Libya - site of an ongoing civil war, Fukushima - Japanese nuclear power plant, William & Kate - Newly-named Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Gadafi - Libyan political leader. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Macron says France commemorates 109th anniv. of Armenian genocide Today France commemorates the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide of 1915, Macron says. Freedom House concerned by mounting reports of police violence in Armenia Freedom House urged Armenian authorities to investigate this pattern of excessive force and inhumane treatment. |