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It's actually sooner. They assume 83 tweets per second (reference 2) but the number is 200 tweets per second: http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/50e673d8/some-stats-from-tw...

From the link:

"Twitter is seeing about 200 tweets per second, during peak loads. - Robert Scoble"

Note "during peak loads", so 83 is probably not too far off.

Fair enough. Do we have any solid references of the actual average rate of tweets?

I haven't seen one, but it's easy enough to get it. Just check the UID of the latest tweet on the public timeline, wait a week and check again.

They must read HN. It now says:

2 at a rate of 151 tweets per seconds

"Values updated every 5 minutes". Looking at the source (I don't actually know JavaScript, but it seems pretty simple) I'm assuming that means they get the current TwitID AND the current rate of increase.

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