Comments on: What is the carbon footprint of twitter? http://blog.fluidcreativity.co.uk/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-twitter/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:21:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Vince Love http://blog.fluidcreativity.co.uk/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-375 Vince Love Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:24:19 +0000 http://blog.fluidcreativity.co.uk/?p=1060#comment-375 If I read correctly, Twitterers take up 1.906% of the ICT sector. But they do lots of other things apart from Twitter - blogging, browsing, applications, music etc. That means they should only share a small portion of the 17,798 tonnes of CO2 per year produced and be glad their Tweets are even more ecologically sound ...<br><br>You could go even further and discount a big chunk of the monthly visits to Twitter as many sign up and don't post thereafter. In fact, some research puts "committed" Twitter users at only 10% of the total community.<br><br>Take all that into consideration and you could probably fit all of Twitter's carbon emissions on the back of a small truck :-) If I read correctly, Twitterers take up 1.906% of the ICT sector. But they do lots of other things apart from Twitter – blogging, browsing, applications, music etc. That means they should only share a small portion of the 17,798 tonnes of CO2 per year produced and be glad their Tweets are even more ecologically sound …

You could go even further and discount a big chunk of the monthly visits to Twitter as many sign up and don't post thereafter. In fact, some research puts “committed” Twitter users at only 10% of the total community.

Take all that into consideration and you could probably fit all of Twitter's carbon emissions on the back of a small truck :-)

]]> By: Don't Google it - The Dragon's List Kung Fu Community http://blog.fluidcreativity.co.uk/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-338 Don't Google it - The Dragon's List Kung Fu Community Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:34:39 +0000 http://blog.fluidcreativity.co.uk/?p=1060#comment-338 [...] the environmental impact of Google searches - Times Online Twitter: 17,798 tonnes a year! What is the carbon footprint of twitter? Facebook consumes roughly half the energy of New York city (in a given time period) 10 Billion [...] [...] the environmental impact of Google searches – Times Online Twitter: 17,798 tonnes a year! What is the carbon footprint of twitter? Facebook consumes roughly half the energy of New York city (in a given time period) 10 Billion [...]

]]> By: fluidcreativity http://blog.fluidcreativity.co.uk/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-302 fluidcreativity Tue, 26 May 2009 18:36:16 +0000 http://blog.fluidcreativity.co.uk/?p=1060#comment-302 It's the number of people who visit <a href="http://twitter.com" rel="nofollow">twitter.com</a> monthly...I figured it was as good an estimation as any as to the number of twitter users. It's the number of people who visit twitter.com monthly…I figured it was as good an estimation as any as to the number of twitter users.

]]> By: numbercruncher http://blog.fluidcreativity.co.uk/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-301 numbercruncher Tue, 26 May 2009 18:30:55 +0000 http://blog.fluidcreativity.co.uk/?p=1060#comment-301 If if the number of Twitter users is actually Twitter accounts, you can probably reduce that number some more because of multiple accounts run on the same machine.<br><br>I think our government work out figures that way too. If if the number of Twitter users is actually Twitter accounts, you can probably reduce that number some more because of multiple accounts run on the same machine.

I think our government work out figures that way too.

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