According to figures published by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, the microblogging platform has reached 200 million registered users, but only 100 million of them are considered active (they log in at least once a month).
Now out of the 100 million active users, only 60 million are logging onto the service to actually saying something, the rest being content with lurking. No mention was made about how many of the “active” actives are spambots trying to give you free iPads and cheap Viagra, but that’s probably for the best because disclosing that information would make their evolution seem a lot less spectacular.
Other figures reveal that over 50 million people log in each day, and that the daily average number of tweets is somewhere around 230 million.
Overall, the stats aren’t too shabby, although for some reason I was expecting them to be a lot higher.
