[hollerith]

HN is not small and hasn't been for many years. Your comment is item (comment or story) number 39 million 425 thousand 162.

[csallen]

Twitter gets 500 million new tweets every day.

HN has 39 million comments after 17 years.

HN is small.

[jerbear4328]

Yeah, it's not some ten-person forum buried in the annals of the old Internet, HN is popular enough, but does a random person sitting in a Boston cafe know what HN is? Probably not, but they sure know what Twitter is.

[hollerith]

I wonder how many non-spam human-written tweets every day.

[Ringz]

About 42.

[rezonant]

Well, quality over quantity.