Twitter has just announced that they are now serving 50million tweets per day on the microblogging platform, meaning that over 600 are being posted per second.

In 2007, when the site first started hitting people's radar, they were pushing 5000 tweets per day, with that growing to over 300,000 per day by 2008.
Over the course of 2009, the numbers being delivered jumped 1400% from 2.5m to 35m - highlighting the massive growth the service (and social media in general) had over the past year.

Now with 50m per day being posted to the site from clients and devices in every walk of life, and from every corner of the world, Twitter is starting to make it into the mainstream's psyche.

On to 100m!

[Twitter Blog]