Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Twitter Hits 500 Million Registered Users

Twitter 'To Hit 500 Million Registered Users' -- The Telegraph

Twitter is set to hit 500 million registered users later today, according to a report.

The popular microblogging company, which processes more than a billion tweets a week, is set to hit the milestone figure later today, claims Twopcharts, a third party Twitter analysis company.

However, the 500 million relates to the total number of registered accounts, and fails to reveal how many are active.

A Twitter spokesman declined to comment on third party figures and said that the company only tracks how many active users there are using the site. There are no plans from the company to announce a registered user figure milestone.

Presently there are 100 million active Twitter accounts; a figure which was announced by the company’s executives last September.

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My Comment: And a number that is still climbing .... all be it slowly.

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