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2008-09-14T16:33:00.000-07:00

>> Based on Total Users: 1+ million
>> Total Active Users: 200,000 per week
>> Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day

If you look at the message id numbers being assigned in the search results for search.twitter.com (which are assigned sequentially), it seems pretty clear that the total twitters per day is closer to 1.25 million per day.

For example, pick a word that is said fairly frequently, such as "palin". Then do this:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=palin

Look at the "view tweet" URL on the most recent message:

http://twitter.com/xtrarant/statuses/921470217

On mine, it has the number 921,470,217

Now do an advanced search for the same keyword, 24 hours ago. Compare the two numbers. The difference is a good approximation of the number of tweets per day.

What I'm seeing is about 1.25 million on weekdays, dropping to .9 million on weekends.

I'm graphing traffic for some commonly used twitter words here:

http://coverpop.com/twittergeist/

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