• CNET, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:12 PM

It took a total of three years, two months, and one day for Twitter to hit 1 billion tweets, the company said in a blog today in advance of its fifth birthday next week. Today, tweeters tweet 1 billion tweets every week, while an average of 140 million tweets were posted per day.

Continuing to expand its footprint, an average of 460,000 new accounts were created every day over the past month. Internally, Twitter now has 400 employees, 50 of whom have come on since January. Though enlightening, "The numbers that were missing, of course, were anything about revenues or company valuation--and those are the numbers that everyone really seems to want to hear," writes CNet.

According to various reports, a surge in secondary-market trading has pushed the company's valuation past $10 billion. Still, reports vary wildly regarding the success of Twitter's ad programs and search-engine partnerships.

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