Twitter is an amazing example of exponential growth.

Twitter is an amazing example of exponential growth.

But there is exponential and there is exponential; T power of X can be the power of 2 or the power of 5 - makes a big difference.

The number of users was about 190 million in June 2010 and at that time there were about 65 million tweets a day. Today Twitter is adding about half a million new accounts per day.
But the other growth factors are the number of tweets per account which is growing. On March 11, 2011, 177 million tweets were sent. And with the increasing use of mobile devices to tweet and search why should this slow down?

But this is only part of the challenge. Because each twitter account is “following” more accounts. One can unilaterally follow another twitter, and a new twitter may only follow a few other accounts over time they may follow thousands of other accounts.

So this growth is happening at a much faster rate of growth than the rate of change for the decreasing cost of technology and the increasing speed of processing. So will it all blow up some day?