Twitter About To Hit 5 Billion Tweets

Sometime in the next day it looks like Twitter is about to go past the 5 Billion Tweet mark as calculated by the truly mesmerizing traffic tweet counter on the simple yet effective website Gigatweet. This is a truly staggering number that represents nearly 1 tweet for every single person on the planet and the pace of the clock is rising by the minute.

The site also features a few other interesting simple graphs that you sum up the huge popularity and growth of Twitter. Head on over there and watch the clock for a couple of minutes, you will be drawn in by its simplicity and you will start pondering all sorts of things like just how many of those tweets are people wasting broadband saying good morning to others.