How many tweets make a trend
How many tweets does it take to make a trend on twitter?
I have always been one to ask why or how. So, I wanted to find out … so I dug around. Here is what I found.
1. The average number of tweets per day is 1.9 Million
2. The average number of unique twitter users per day is about 631,737
3. The average number of unique twitter users online per hour is 48,233
4. The average number of unique tweets per hour is 83,394 and unique tweets / minute is – 1350
5. Number of unique trending topics per day is – 8900 (these are for one specific day, but average over the last 7 days is in this range). Trending topic has a “shelf life” of 11 minutes, most though are less than 5 minutes. There are 10 top trending topics shown on Twitter.com on the search page at any time. Unique twitterers by the hour.
So the big question is of how many tweets it takes to trend depends on 2 things – # of people tweeting at the same time on topic and the hour of the day.
In Pacific Standard Time, the research indicates:
Between 12 (midnight) to 6 am PDT: approximately 1200 tweets and about 500 users to be trending
Between 6 am to 12 Noon PDT: 1700 tweets and about 733 users
Between 12 noon to 6 pm: 1500 tweets and about 812 users (this may be because there are more people during this time but they tweet a lot less)
Between 6 pm to 12 midnight: 1900 tweets and about 922 users
This is a rough estimate from varied sources … but it gives you an idea.
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