• 4.8% of all tweets were about Coleman’s death source

• 4,938,301 Ashton Kutcher’s current Twitter follower count; he knows all of them personally
• 4,940,414 Britney Spears’ current follower count; she came out of nowhere to take the lead source

• 604,455 accounts per Twitter employee

• 105M number of users on Twitter; 300,000 get added daily
• 50M number of tweets
  that get sent out
  every single day
• 75% of all tweet traffic comes from third-party applications source

• Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive — ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow.
• A tweet from @libraryofcongress • Which sounds absolutely awesome. Could you imagine? Twitter getting archived into the annals of history? The sandwich you ate? All the malware links? The Bieber-bombings we’ve seen over the last month or two? The FourSquare mayoral races? Sign us up! source

• now Twitter will let companies buy ad tweets for certain keywords on searches. Well, that’s obvious.
• later Twitter will show relevant promoted posts in the stream of tweets. That’s even moreso. source

• We’re convinced that 13-year-old girls are slowly taking over Twitter, based on this chart. Chile was the most popular of the week (though WhatTheTrend would disagree), but Justin Bieber and “Jonas” (which we used to cover both the Jonas Brothers and Joe Jonas’ solo career) were right behind. Twitter should consider expanding trending topics, because they’re slowly becoming less useful.

• 101,377 number of followers @ConanOBrien has – in just THREE HOURS; way to rally the troops, dude
• 30,061 number of followers @JayLeno has, which has been running since May and isn’t written by him

The pitch-perfect intro

• Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.
• Conan O’Brien • In his heavily-retweeted “Hello, World” to the Web. There was some question as to whether the account was initially real, but it now has a spankin’ “Verified Account” stamp on it. We wonder if this Twitter account is the suggestion of bigger things. You know, like a tour. source

• everything Super Bowl
  
  
• Just the commercials
  
  

• 160+ tweets about Johnson since last week source