If you tried to print Twitter

There have been 165,772,120,549,376,000 tweets since Twitter began *

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Printing all 165,772,120,549,376,000 tweets would take about 426,712,191 years

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Average tweet length is 92 characters *
That's 15,251,035,090,542,592,000 characters (total tweets x avg size)
Printing Twitter would use 4,485,598,556,041,939 A4 pages (approximately)

That's four quadrillion four hundred eighty-five trillion five hundred ninety-eight billion five hundred fifty-six million forty thousand pages
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If you printed Twitter using a laser printer *

You would need 2,242,799,278,021 toner cartridges

and it would take 155,749,949,863 days
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If you printed Twitter using an inkjet printer *

you would need 8,971,197,112,084 ink cartridges

and it would take 622,999,799,450 days
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If you printed Twitter, the finished weight of your print job would be 22,427,992,780 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.