Check your own stats or compare yourself to Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Barack Obama or one of the other 300 Million+ tweeps we track! At that event Arjen Schat (co-founder) and I (Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten) were talking to a reader of The Next Web blog. I asked this person if he was subscribed to our RSS feed. he told us 'No, I follow you on Twitter and that works better for me than RSS". I was
amazed and when he walked away I turned to Arjen and said "If more people are going to follow us via Twitter instead of via RSS then we have to build Feedburner for Twitter!". Arjen agreed but told me he didn't have time to start on it right away. Knowing a little PHP myself I decided to spend my weekend trying to come up with a prototype. After one weekend I had a simple website but most things didn't work yet. The weekend after that (June 7 & 8) I solved most of the tough issues (like generating images with GD) and on Monday June 9 I showed a working prototype to my partners. Arjen loved the idea from the start and we agreed to work on it for a few weeks and launch it quickly. We dropped what we were doing and started polishing the service. Only 2 days later we decided that Twitter Counter, as basic as it was, was good enough to launch. Nowadays we track over 300 million Twitter users, have 817.000 monthly visits and 85.000 daily pageviews.
