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Happy birthday, Twitter
Site now averages 140 million tweets a day
Updated: Monday, 21 Mar 2011, 8:19 AM MDT
Published : Monday, 21 Mar 2011, 6:20 AM MDT
(CNN) - Happy birthday, Twitter.
Five years ago, the first of what would become many billions of "tweets" was posted the microblogging website. It was just two words: "inviting coworkers."
Since that March 21st, 2006 tweet by founder Jack Dorsey, Twitter has grown to more than 175 million registered users sharing their ideas -- in 140 characters or less.
According to Twitter's official blog, users post a billion tweets every week. It took more than three years for Twitter to reach its first billion milestone.
Just last week, Twitter says it set a record of 6,939 tweets per second immediately after the 9.0 earthquake struck Japan. 177 million tweets went out as the day wore on.
The site now averages 140 million tweets a day.
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