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TechCrunch revealed that Facebook will be adding a feature this week that will allow you to send your Facebook status update out as a tweet. The tweets include a link back to your status on Facebook via the new fb.me URL shortener. Read that as monster inbound traffic for Facebook.

Of particular concern will surely be the strain this will place on Twitter, as millions of users with both Facebook and Twitter accounts suddenly increase their tweet frequency. More on that from All Facebook.

Prepare to be seeing more of the Fail Whale.

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The actual figure for Twitter user stats is hard to get, unless you’re a Twitter employee.  Here’s a list of links that are helpful in estimating just how many Tweeters are out there.

http://www.twitdir.com displays a running total of the number of public Twitter users in it’s directory.

http://tweetrush.com analyzes number of tweets sent over the last 7 days.

http://www.twitterholic.com lists the most popular Twitter users by followers.

http://www.compete.com shows the approx number of unique visitors to the twitter.com site.

Finally, see Michael Arrington’s post about this topic on TechCrunch from April 2008.

Update:

For a look at the volume of tweets per hour and per day, check GigaTweet. Lovely graphs.

See also Quantcast’s analysis of twitter.com. These stats are only for the twitter.com web site, and do not include desktop or mobile Twitter client users.

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