Ask HN: Anybody Know Any Real-Time Web Stats?

[DanielBMarkham]

Hi guys,

My Google-Fu is weak today, as I have tried to find the answers to these questions and have failed. So I figured I would ask the experts.

Anybody know how much volume the real-time web is pumping today? How many tweets there are per day, how many FaceBook updates the average user reads each day, how many new blogs are written each day, or how many news/web articles the average user reads?

I need this for my startup business proposal, so any help would be really, really appreciated. Sorry to be so lame -- I guess the information is out there somewhere -- but beats me if I can find it easily.

[JayNeely]

Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-week-in-search-1...

Facebook: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2009/09/usa-today-750... http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics

YouTube: http://ksudigg.wetpaint.com/page/YouTube+Statistics

Blogs: http://www.alphablogs.net/article/over-14-million-new-blog-p... http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-3-the-how-of-blog...

Miscellaneous: http://socialnomics.net/2009/08/11/statistics-show-social-me...

[chrisa]

I don't know how accurate this is, but this site claims about 490 tweets per second: http://www.twitpocalypse.com/

[ABrandt → chrisa]

Now it says "Current rate is 516 tweets per second". Either the system isn't exact or the average is climbing at a staggering rate as well...

[axod → chrisa]

Nothing compared to things like IRC/email/IM etc.

[DanielBMarkham → chrisa]

I know it's not a good thing to do when you comment and say something simple like "wow" but Wow!

I never suspected the volume was already at this level.

[hockeybias]

I am aware of http://www.twitpocalypse.com/ too, but curious as to what eklse is out there!