ROME - There are two billion (1.99 to be exact) text messages written by users of Twitter in May. The goal is to certify Pingdom, a Swedish company specialized in Internet monitoring. The "chirping" microblog passed on last month, says the company, were 64 million per day, 2.7 million per hour, 741 per second.
Traveling at this rate, Twitter has doubled the volume of messages in six months. In December, the site had in fact reached the threshold of one billion. The figures also include the "junk", but, thanks to measures introduced to combat spam, represent a fraction of the total traffic. As announced on Twitter at the end of March, the spam messages that contain links to malicious sites, up 1% of the total, against 11% hit last August.
View contrast to spam, Twitter has just announced the introduction of a system for its "Short URL", that is, for automatically shortening web addresses to make it less cumbersome their inclusion in messages of 140 characters and their display on the small mobile screen.
The shortening involves replacing the normal address, which contains information with a random sequence of characters. In practice, short-clicking the address you do not know what page you will be connected. This condition, which are taking advantage of cyber-criminals.
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