Twitter: Average user has 126 followers

Some stuff that Evan Weaver, Twitter's lead engineer in its services team, said at a recent talk:

-the average user has 126 followers;

-only 20% of its traffic comes through the Twitter website; the other 80% (logically) comes from third-party programs on smartphones or computers. So if you're looking at Twitter stats on your website, you're probably underestimating that source of traffic by a factor of five;

-an early peak test of the service came during President Obama's inauguration in January, when more than 300 tweets per second were being added to the message queue.

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