An intermediary application Gigatweet has been measuring the total tweet count for some time now on this service, and last week some onlookers picked up on the fact that it was getting close to five billion. That said, Twitter’s engineers have bumped up this number at least once or twice, and who knows how many test tweets were sent out in the company’s early days.
But Sloan’s tweet, which he has nicknamed “The Pentagigatweet,” does get at least some landmark status because it actually has the number 5,000,000,000 in the URL. That’s because the number at the end of a tweet’s URL is apparently the running count of tweets that have been posted until that point.
