Twitter's Ambitious Predictions for Next Year

In a recent piece for the Times Online, Stone elaborated on Twitter's significant role during the Iranian protests, highlighting its power as a real-time information network. This marks a departure from the more conventional view of Twitter as merely a platform for sharing daily musings or connecting with friends.

Such projections have caught the attention of industry watchers. Kim Mai-Cutler, an analyst, was quick to point out the audacity of Stone's forecast. She remarked, "Several billion tweets an hour is astonishing, given that the platform has seen about 7 billion tweets in its three-year existence." Mai-Cutler also noted the stark difference between this and the 27 million tweets a day Twitter reportedly handled the previous month, as cited by a

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