Twitter Search Volume Up 33% Since April

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According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival recently, Twitter is handling 800 million search queries per day.

At Twitter’s Chirp conference in April, Stone said Twitter was serving 600 million search queries per day — 33% less than the microblogging service is processing now.

The number reminds us of Bing’s impressive growth last year, when Nielsen reported that Microsoft’s search engine was growing 22.1% month-over-month. However, Bing was unable to continue growing at that rate; it lost 5% of its stake in the search market the very next month.

All this time, Twitter’s search has been growing; partly due to Twitter’s growth in use and users, and partly because Twitter’s real-time search is one of the best ways to find out what’s happening right now. With the recent launch of Twitter’s ad platform, a huge search volume will definitely help Twitter increase its revenue stream.