Twitter user scared by hype over milestone

A Japanese Tweeter has been freaked out by a flurry of attention all over the world, following the landmark posting up of the twenty billionth tweet on the site. Social networking giants Twitter congratulated the user as he published his 140 character tweet to the site.

The poor gentleman who was singled out for attention has the username ‘GGGGGGo_Lets_Go’. He has found unwanted notoriety following his tweet, which was sent on 1544 GMT Saturday. The rather innocuous message stated: “So that means the barrage might come back later all at once.”

The gentleman is a graphic designer who works for an advertising agency based in Tokyo. He has released a comment which demonstrates his confusion at being singled out, and the rather unexpected notoriety which has occurred as a result of him inadvertently posting up the landmark tweet: “Looks like I posted the 20 billionth tweet. I’m getting replies from people all over the world. It’s scary. What are the chances? Maybe I’m going to die. Is it more amazing than winning the lottery? I thought it was a joke.”

It has taken Twitter just five months to double the number of tweets it had, going from ten billion to twenty billion. Japanese users of the site send eight million tweets per day (twelve percent of the global total), and are the most prolific tweeters in the world, after the United States.

Twitter was founded in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. As of June 2009, there was an estimated 45 million user accounts. Everything you write on Twitter is indexed and can be found on the web.

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