Twitter on Thursday revealed that over 140 million active users make 340 million tweets everyday. The company disclosed the figure in an official blog posted after it completed six years of operations.

"At last check, there are more than 140 million active users and today we see 340 million Tweets a day. That's more than 1 billion every 3 days. Howeverconcisely, it turns out there's plenty to say," the company said. Twitter is a microblogging website where users cannot post a message bigger than 140 characters. However, this limit has been one of the reasons why the service has grown so rapidly as it allows people to post quick and concise thoughts in real time.

In the blog, Twitter revealed that the idea of the website was born when @jack (Jack Dorsey, the company's current executive chairman) sketched out his notion in March 2006. "No one could have predicted the trajectory of this new communication tool (then)... Now it seems that there are as many ways to express yourself in 140 characters as there are people doing it," Twitter said on the blog.

Source :timesofindia.indiatimes.com