Twitter growing and growing and growing….

Contrary to the earlier report that the popularity of Twitter is somewhat diminishing, the report released by Pingdom gives entire new story. Infact according to report, Twitter is gaining further grounds with December 2009 crossing total of 1 billion tweets a month and in January the figure went beyond 1.2 billion tweets !

I think this is more believable report as this chart is that it represents all tweets, including those made from third-party applications via Twitter’s API. This means that we see the actual activity of the Twitter service as a whole.

Most of the other reports are based on traffic coming to twitter.com or then the tweets are discounted which are made through 3rd party app.

Here are some of the interesting growth statistics that Twitter shows !

• December 2009 was the first month Twitter processed more than one billion tweets (with 1.036 billion tweets).
• January 2010 had 16 times as many tweets as January 2009.
• The activity on Twitter has doubled since August 2009.
• January 2010 saw more tweets per day (39.5 million) than the whole of September 2008.

I can only imaging what kind of growth we would see by Jan 2011 – Interesting times ahead !