If you tried to print Twitter
There have been 10,581,559,767 tweets since Twitter began *
This number is live, hit refresh to update!
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Printing all 10,581,559,767 tweets would take about 27 years
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Average tweet length is 92 characters *
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That's 973,503,498,564 characters (total tweets x avg size)
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Printing Twitter would use 286,324,558 A4 pages (approximately)
That's two hundred eighty-six million three hundred twenty-four thousand five hundred fifty-eight pages -
If you printed Twitter using a laser printer *
You would need 143,162 toner cartridges
and it would take 9,942 days -
If you printed Twitter using an inkjet printer *
you would need 572,649 ink cartridges
and it would take 39,767 days -
If you printed Twitter, the finished weight of your print job would be 1,432 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.
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