Twitter’s Biz Stone just reeled off some key, and very long awaited stats at Chirp. The stats:

• Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users.
• It gets 300,000 new users a day.
• It receives 180 Million Unique visitors a month.
• And 75% of traffic comes from outside of Twitter.com

The numbers are a bit confusing because you don’t have to be a registered user to visit Twitter.com, and 75 percent of usage comes from other apps, which really underscores the importance of outside developers. CEO Evan Williams later on noted that developers are making 3 billion requests a day through the APIs.

Another stat: Twitter now has 175 employees, up from 25 a year ago.

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• TWITTER

Company: Twitter

Website: twitter.com

Launch Date: March 21, 2006

Funding: $1.16B

Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post updates 140 characters long. Twitter “is a real-time information network that connects [users] to the latest stories, ideas, opinions, and news.” The service can be accessed through a variety of methods, including Twitter’s website; text messaging; instant messaging; and third-party desktop, mobile, and web applications. Twitter is currently available in...

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