• Royal Pingdom, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:08 PM

Flying in the face of mounting speculation over Twitter's slowing growth, new research from Royal Pingdom finds that the microblogging platform is -- as of December -- processing over one billion tweets per month. In particular, January surpassed 1.2 billion, averaging almost 40 million tweets per day. This is significantly more than Twitter was processing just a few months ago.

For Twitter's part, its CEO Evan Williams said on January 12: "Across all metrics that matter, yesterday was Twitter's highest-usage day ever." Additionally, after creating a chart that shows the number of tweets per month back to mid 2008, Royal Pingdom found that not only was 2009 the year that Twitter's popularity really exploded, it also shows that Twitter usage is still increasing rapidly.

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