Total Number of Tweets in Real Time

It's Friday! Yay. I read this interesting piece on Trendwatching about the power of now or NOWISM, which shows that Twitter is the 'poster child' of one of the three developments to watch: 1) online impulse, 2) living the live, and 3) instant commerce. And Twitter leading the way in real-time search everything, even Google founder admits it that they've done good job. From the time the article was published online, the total number of tweets have gone up from,

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to this

  

image: Gigatweet

Lots of numbers. For more real time tweets, here..