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Average Twitter user has 126 followers, and only 20% of users go via website How many followers do you have?? More than 126, you are above avg, nice! Read on for more Twitter facts.. like

- Average number of followers - twitter.com - 126

- 20% of traffic comes through twitter.com the other 80% comes from connected phones, programs, computers, etc..When examining your stats sourced from Twitter.com, remember that 4x that traffic has arrived from other sources. And depending on your visitors, highly mobile, or older, etc.. it could be higher.

- High Peak in Twitter Traffic: President Obama's inauguration in January, more than 300 tweets / second.

These party factoids come courtesy of Evan Weaver, Twitter's lead engineer in its services team, who gave a talk at QCon 2009 to explain the architecture of the system

Twitter, which started out as a sort of small content management system, but has morphed into a "messaging system" of sorts. Weaver's job is primarily about optimization and scalability, and that's been more necessary than ever with the abrupt growth of the site in the past year.