Twitter Hits 10 Billion Tweets

It’s official: Twitter has surpassed 10 billion tweets. While Gigatweet’s counter is down due to over-traffic, you can tell by the actual tweet ID numbers that we have crossed the magical threshold.

The milestone shows that Twitter’s still growing at a rapid pace: It broke one billion tweets in November 2008 and five billion tweets just four months ago.

So who was the lucky person that sent out tweet 10 billionth tweet? We’re checking now and will let you know ASAP.

Update: Tweet #10 billion apparently belongs to a protected user, as API calls won’t allow us to see that specific status update. Via @timdorr, here is Tweet #9,999,999,999 and tweet #10,000,000,001.

We want to also point out that the 10 billionth tweet doesn’t necessarily correlate to the actual 10 billionth tweet — tweet IDs have been tweaked several times due to technical issues such as Twitpocalypse. Still, it’s close enough, so now it’s time to look to the future and count down towards 20 billion tweets!