Seems like very good things are happening to Twitter this week. First, they announced that Twitter has now reached a mark of 50 million tweets per day on Twitter – A great achievement for Twitter indeed. Secondly, the spiritual leader of Buddhists – Dalai Lama has joined twitter!

50 million tweets per day on Twitter

Twitter, the popular microblogging site which is being used almost everyone these days has recorded some really impressive metrics off late. According to a release, almost 50 million tweets are being posted on a daily basis on Twitter. Launched in 2007, Twitter had announced 5000 tweets daily on a average in the same year. The number went on to increase to 3 lakh tweets per day in 2008 and in 2010, the number has risen to 500 lakhs per day – that is close to 165X growth compared to last year in terms of tweet message volumes.

Although these figures are not even close to those of Facebook – Around a billion messages sent everyday through Facebook’s chat. Can twitter every equal Facebook, say in 2 years? This, only time will tell!