Heavy Twitters Chat Up 248 People Weekly

A couple centuries ago, especially for the rural diasporas, communicating with somebody outside of your immediate family may have been a rare treat. Today about seven million people communicate with an average of 248 people per week via social media’s one-to-many communication capabilities.

It you just multiply those numbers together—7 million people, each with 248 friends—that’s something like 1.7 billion people, and somebody better at math than I will have to decide what the total combination of connections equals. More likely, though, there’s significant overlap.

These numbers come courtesy of Netpop Research via