If you tried to print Twitter

There have been 22,861,747,000 tweets since Twitter began *

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Average tweet length is 92 characters *
That's 2,103,280,724,000 characters (total tweets x avg size)
Printing Twitter would use 618,611,978 A4 pages (approximately)

That's six hundred eighteen million six hundred eleven thousand nine hundred seventy-seven pages
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If you printed Twitter using a laser printer *

You would need 309,306 toner cartridges

and it would take 21,480 days
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If you printed Twitter using an inkjet printer *

you would need 1,237,224 ink cartridges

and it would take 85,918 days
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If you printed Twitter, the finished weight of your print job would be 3,093 metric tonnes
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* Notes:

Current number of tweets is live but it does not include private (protected) tweets that are not in Twitter's public timeline.

Characters per page is 3400 calculated as 85 mixed characters per line in 12pt Times New Roman font on an A4 page with 2.54cm or 1" margins.

Weight of finished print job assumes 80gsm paper was used.

Average number of tweets based on data sample analysis.

The two Twitter graphics at the top of the page are used courtesy of webdesigner depot.