{"id":838,"date":"2009-12-19T18:33:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T23:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2016-06-07T07:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T12:13:00","slug":"number-of-tweets-exceeds-world-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/twitter\/number-of-tweets-exceeds-world-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Tweets on Twitter Now Exceeds World Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter, the popular social network and microblogging service, reached an interesting milestone this morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mashable.com the number of tweets ( Twitter messages ) posted on the site now exceeds the world population at 6.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that Twitter broke this record at around 1 AM EST this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were pulled from GigaTweet, a Twitter tracking tool, and the World Population Clock.<\/p>\n<p>[ Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/12\/19\/tweets-world-population\/\">Mashable.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter, the popular social network and microblogging service, reached an interesting milestone this morning. According to Mashable.com the number of tweets ( Twitter messages ) posted on the site now exceeds the world population at 6.8 billion. It is estimated that Twitter broke this record at around 1 AM EST this morning. The numbers were [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/twitter\/number-of-tweets-exceeds-world-population\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Number of Tweets on Twitter Now Exceeds World Population<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5960,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/5960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}