Twitter is celebrating its fifth birthday in March. Therefore the company has released its latest set of statistics about its growth and usage, such as the fact that it took more than 3 years for users to send the first 1 billion “tweets”.
Over the past year, the average number of Twitter messages sent per day has increased from 50 million in March 2010 to 140 million this month, the company says in a blog post.
Currently, an average of 460,000 new Twitter accounts are created every day, while the number of Twitter mobile users has spiked 182 percent year-on-year.
DubaiChronicle.com joined Twitter less than six months ago.
