This data comes from a scrape of the Twitter social network conducted by the Monkeywrench Consultancy. The full scrape consists of 40 million users, 1.6 billion tweets, and more than 1 billion relationships between users.

This dataset is a list of the number of user counts by the month in which the account was created collected from tweets sent between March 2006 and March 2010. Each user profile includes a timestamp for when the account was created. This dataset counts the number of users who created accounts and sorts them by year and month. Since the full scrape does not cover 100% of users, the total number of users is estimated by looking at the minimum and maximum user id number for each month. The coverage of the scrape is then calculated from this estimated number of users.

If you make a visualization of this dataset, email info@infochimps.org and we will feature it in a blog post.

The Monkeywrench Consultancy will produce custom slices, subscription services, and analysis of the full scrape for a fee. Please contact imw@infochimps.org for more information.

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