Question

In June 2012, Twitter was reporting 400 million tweets per day. Each tweet can consist of up to 140 characters (letter, numbers, etc.). Create a comparison to help understand the amount of tweets in a year by imagining each character was a drop of water and comparing to filling something up

Answer 1

Assuming each tweet reaches the max of 140, there would be 56 billion drops of water daily. This would equate to 738,681.7 gallons of water or 98,870.4 cubic feet. This amount of drops of water could fill up almost half of the Goodyear blimp