Billions of Tweets
By @edent
· numerology twitter · 300 words
Numbers matter to some people. It's sometimes not important who did something first - but rather who did things on "milestone" numbers.
Here are the billionth messages posted on Twitter.
1,000,000,000
Although Ann is still on Twitter, the website they pointed to is long since gone.
2,000,000,000
Star1051's account appears to have been taken over by a spammer. It is no longer in use as of December 2009.
3,000,000,000
3,000,000,000 is gone
4,000,000,000
No longer using Twitter as of August 2011.
5,000,000,000
5,000,000,000 since deleted.
6,000,000,000
Они задолбали is still going strong
7,000,000,000
Trish announced she was leaving Twitter in April 2011.
8,000,000,000
Last seen in October 2013
9,000,000,000
Makiko is still Tweeting away.
10,000,000,000
Kimmie is a relentless Twitter user.
...and then?
Late in 2010, Twitter switched to Snowflake for generating IDs. This meant Tweet IDs were no longer guaranteed to be sequential (although they are usually sortable).
