engine - 2:54 pm on Jan 31, 2012 (gmt 0)

Dick Costolo, Twitter's CEO, Interview on Ads, Censorship and Google [allthingsd.com]

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo kicked off D: Dive Into Media with a bang on Monday, defending its ability to block tweets by country, rejecting the need for a stock offering and declaring 2012 to be the year of the Twitter election.

Twitter gets 1300 queries per second, or more than 100 Million googlebot requests per day!